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
For you and I are past our dancing days.
I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.
You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.