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
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.- from The Tempest
Fill all thy bones with aches.
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
Now I will believe that there are unicorns...
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
When I waked, I cried to dream again
...lest too light winning make the prize light.
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.