WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(1564-1616)
''Love, love madly, love more than you can and if they say it's sin, love your sin and you'll be innocent.''
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-Romeo e Juliet
BOOKS
ROMEO & JULIET
HAMLET
OTHELLO
APHORISMS
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JULIET: O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET: ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name Belonging to a man. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; And for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
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« To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep…
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream.
William Shakespeare,
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
William Shakespeare,
SCENE OF THE BALCONY
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BIOGRAPHY
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, possibly on 23rd April, which is also said to be the date of his death. He married Anne Hathaway when he was only eighteen and she was twenty-six and pregnant with their daughter. In 1584 he left Stratford and went to London. His admirable wit soon distinguished him, if not as a great actor, as an excellent writer. In 1593 the London theatres were closed because of the plague, and Shakespeare needed the support of a private patron. When the theatres reopened, Shakespeare became a shareholder and the main playwright of the most successful company of actors in London:the Lord Chamberlain's Men. In 1599 his company built the Globe Theatre, where most of his plays were performed.