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
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Can I go forward when my heart is here?
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Out of her favour, where I am in love.
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
she shall scant show well that now shows best.
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?