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
Live how we can, yet die we must.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, And either live with glorious victorie, Or die with fame renown'd for chivalrie: He is not worthy of the honey-comb, That shuns the hives because the bees have stings
Despair and die. The ghosts
Come, Lady, die to live.
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
I hope to see London once ere I die.
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
I would fain die a dry death.
thus with a kiss I die
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envi