William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, renowned for his profound exploration of human emotions in works like 'Hamlet' and 'Othello.'

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Born
April 23, 1564
Died
April 23, 1616
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"He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly Hearing us praise our loves of Italy For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva, Postures beyond brief nature; for condition, A shop of all the qualities that man Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving, Fairness which strikes the eye- CYMBELINE."

Eye Men Quality
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"O wretched state! o bosom black as death!"

Death Black States
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"Soft pity enters an iron gate."

Iron Pity Gates
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"Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings."

Passion Soul Tears
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"Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid."

Cypresses Maids Fairness
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"That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air."

Art Air Heaven
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"Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word."

Promise Wish Debt
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"I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."

Wise Silence Saying Nothing
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"What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose."

Passion Purpose Propose
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"Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!"

Office Degrees Merit
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"In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"

Halloween Night Bears
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"'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up."

Lakes Sea Fishing
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"The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait."

Cutting Lakes Sea
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"Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'"

Thinking Lakes Sea
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"Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."

Mean Vanity Light
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"Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation."

Horse Night Giving
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