William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 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. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
To you your father should be as a god.
The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.