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
The worst is death, and death will have his day.
The weight of this sad time we must obey;Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.