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1564–1616 England

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Also known as: Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William, Shakespearean, Shakspeare

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The charm dissolves apace,
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.

O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense
Hard as the palm of ploughman.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

You are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens,
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.

Othello (1603)

Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Touch me with noble anger!
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks.

King Lear (1608)

Expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

—And is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?
—As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle.

What should we speak of
When we are old as you? When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December.

Cymbeline (1611)

Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity;
And pity 'tis 'tis true.

In silence sad,
Trip we after night's shade:
We the globe can compass soon.
Swifter than the wand'ring moon.

They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly.
But, bear-like, I must fight the course.

Macbeth (1605)

Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?

Macbeth (1605)

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?
The treasury of everlasting joy.

Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, cock-a-diddle-dow.

The Tempest (1610)

Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
For, such as we are made of, such we be.

We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.

Macbeth (1605)

Thou speak’st like a physician, Helicanus,
That ministers a potion unto me
That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.

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