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
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Beware the ides of March.
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.