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
Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!
Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.
I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
In right and service to their noble country.
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
But like of each thing that in season grows.