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
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?
He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.
He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
There is no art To find the mind's construction in the face
Within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task
That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;And I myself see not the bottom of it.