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
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.