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
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
All dark and comfortless.
And nothing is, but what is not.
This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.
Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)
A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.
The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.
May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence