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 men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.
When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step
The earth has music for those that listen.
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes
I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.