"The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars, published in January 2012, is the sixth novel by author John Green. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play ""Julius Caesar"", in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: ""The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."" The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with"
"as an idle wind, which I respect not!"" The play's line ""the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves"", spoken by Cassius in Act I, scene 2, is often referenced in popular culture. The line gave its name to the J.M. Barrie play ""Dear Brutus"", and also gave its name to the best selling young adult novel ""The Fault in Our Stars"" by John Green and its film adaptation. The same line was quoted in Edward R. Murrow's epilogue of his famous 1954 ""See It Now"" documentary broadcast concerning Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. This speech and"
"The Fault in Our Stars (film) The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American romantic tragedy film directed by Josh Boone, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by John Green. The film stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff, and Willem Dafoe playing supporting roles. Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls in love with Augustus Waters, another cancer patient, played by Elgort. Development of ""The Fault in Our Stars"" began in January"
"asserts that Adam Lindsay Gordon has outdone Shakespeare's verse, quoting the lines ""The beetle booms adown the glooms/And bumps among the clumps"" (in fact a garbled version of lines by James Whitcomb Riley). Shakespeare laughs at this. He tells Shaw that he could never have written ""Hamlet"" or ""King Lear"". Shaw replies that Shakespeare could not have written ""Heartbreak House"", and creates a pastiche of his own play with the characters posed in imitation of John Everett Millais' painting ""The North-West Passage"". Shakespeare defends the emotional power of his work. Shaw defends the practical value of his. Shaw ends by"
"Sonnet 121 Sonnet 121 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards his young lover. The poet condemns hypocrisy and decides he's going to be himself. Hypocrites force you to lose out on life's fair pleasures. They are bad by pointing out your faults. What they see as a fault may actually be a good thing. You have to hide your pleasurable pursuits from them. Unless they realize that all people are bad (and presumably they will"
"Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro, in ""Julius Caesar,"" ""the various strands of politics, character, inwardness, contemporary events, even Shakespeare's own reflections on the act of writing, began to infuse each other"". In the early 17th century, Shakespeare wrote the so-called ""problem plays"" ""Measure for Measure"", ""Troilus and Cressida"", and ""All's Well That Ends Well"" and a number of his best known tragedies. Many critics believe that Shakespeare's greatest tragedies represent the peak of his art. The titular hero of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, ""Hamlet"", has probably been discussed more than any other Shakespearean character, especially for his famous soliloquy which"
"The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. ""The Comedy of Errors"" is, along with ""The Tempest"", one of only two Shakespearean plays to observe the Aristotelian principle of unity of time—that is, that the events of a play should occur over 24 hours. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. In the centuries following"
"of Shakespeare's 38 plays, ""twenty-four of which are masterpieces."" Written as a companion to the general reader and theatergoer, Bloom declares that bardolatry ""ought to be even more a secular religion than it already is."" He also contends in the work (as in the title) that Shakespeare ""invented"" humanity, in that he prescribed the now-common practice of ""overhearing"" ourselves, which drives our changes. The two paragons of his theory are Sir John Falstaff of ""Henry IV"" and Hamlet, whom Bloom sees as representing self-satisfaction and self-loathing, respectively. Throughout ""Shakespeare"", characters from disparate plays are imagined alongside and interacting with each"
"been the first play Shakespeare wrote for the new company; it was followed over the next two years by a concentrated burst of creativity that resulted in ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""Love's Labours Lost"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", and the plays in the so-called second tetralogy. The extent and nature of the non-Shakespearean repertory in the first is not known; plays such as ""Locrine"", ""The Troublesome Reign of King John"", and Christopher Marlowe's ""Edward II"" have somewhat cautiously been advanced as likely candidates. The earliest non-Shakespearean play known to have been performed by the company is Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in"
"the play and show its context in the world of Elizabethan England. In creating ""Hamlet"", Shakespeare broke several rules, one of the largest being the rule of action over character. In his day, plays were usually expected to follow the advice of Aristotle in his ""Poetics"", which declared that a drama should not focus on character so much as action. The highlights of ""Hamlet"", however, are not the action scenes, but the soliloquies, wherein Hamlet reveals his motives and thoughts to the audience. Also, unlike Shakespeare's other plays, there is no strong subplot; all plot forks are directly connected to"
"opening (where the producers were sued over the show's content) saying, ""Jupiter will be in opposition to naughty Saturn, and the show opens the very day of the sun's eclipse. Terrible."" But there was no astrologically safe time in the near future. ""Hair"" makes many references to Shakespeare's plays, especially ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ""Hamlet"", and, at times, takes lyrical material directly from Shakespeare. For example, the lyrics to the song ""What a Piece of Work Is Man"" are from ""Hamlet"" (II: scene 2) and portions of ""Flesh Failures"" (""the rest is silence"") are from Hamlet's final lines. In ""Flesh"
"long predated Shakespeare. Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, wrote one of the earliest versions of this line in his “Satire 3”: “All of Greece is a stage, and every Greek’s an actor.” Richard Edwards' play ""Damon and Pythias"", written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, ""Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage"". When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto ' (All the world plays the actor), the Latin text of which is derived from a 12th-century"
"friend's betrayal is justified by the sun, and neglects the moral the reader has been observing, the friend, like the sun, has been deceptive. Sonnet 33 Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. This sonnet is the first of what are sometimes called the estrangement sonnets, numbers 33–36: poems concerned with the speaker's response to an unspecified ""sensual fault"" mentioned in (35) committed by his beloved. Nicolaus Delius notes thematic"
"seduce another woman. She tells The Lady not to trust The Man, as he is a mere actor. She then recognises that The Lady is Queen Elizabeth. The Man reveals that he is William Shakespeare. The Queen demands that he should apologise to her, but Shakespeare insists that his family is more respectable than hers, and that she only has her job by accident of birth. The Dark Lady is shocked by Shakespeare's frankness, but the queen forgives him. Shakespeare complains that his worst plays, ""As You Like It"" and ""Much Ado About Nothing"", are the most popular, but is"
"and Oscar winner A.R. Rahman will compose its music. Actress Sanjana Sanghi was announced as the female lead later that month. The Fault in Our Stars (film) The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American romantic tragedy film directed by Josh Boone, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by John Green. The film stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff, and Willem Dafoe playing supporting roles. Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls"
"all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. </poem> The original texts of Shakespeare's plays do not have cast lists, and can sometimes"
"Sonnet 96 Sonnet 96 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. The youth's errors are blamed on his age, but others say young gentlemen should enjoy themselves. The youth's faults appear to be charms, just as poor-quality jewels on a queen appear to be more valuable by their association with her. The follies of the youth appear to be truths that some may want to erroneously emulate, like wolves who appear to be"
"otherwise specified, are taken from the Arden Shakespeare second edition (Gibbons, 1980) based on the Q2 text of 1599, with elements from Q1 of 1597. Under its referencing system, which uses Roman numerals, II.ii.33 means act 2, scene 2, line 33, and a 0 in place of a scene number refers to the prologue to the act. Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with ""Hamlet"","
"William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ""Bard of Avon"". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 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 those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire."
"Shakespeare may even have seen them himself. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker wrote in one of his plays published in ""The Gull's Horn-book"" (1609): It has been suggested that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company that Shakespeare worked for as an actor and playwright for most of his career, named their playing space the Globe Theatre, built in 1599, as a response to the growing enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial globes stimulated by those of Molyneux. In ""Twelfth Night"" (1600–1601), Shakespeare alluded to the Wright–Molyneux Map when Maria says of Malvolio: ""He does smile his face into more lynes, than"
"the ""BBC Shakespeare"" adaptation argues, ""anarchy is loosed and you're left with a very different set of values – every man for himself. You're into a time of change in which there is no code except survival of the fittest – who happens to be Richard."" The play depicts what happens when ""a nation turns on itself in epic savagery, dissolving its own social foundations."" Significantly in this sense, the play has no antagonist, and both sides in the conflict are depicted as capable of atrocities in their pursuit of victory. For example, the opening moments of the play see"
"to the audience. For example, Feste, in ""Twelfth Night,"" introduces a central theme when he tells Olivia that ""the future is uncertain, laughter momentary, and youth 'a stuff will not endure' (II.iii.52)."" Shakespeare later closes the play with Feste alone on the stage, singing directly to the audience ""of man's inexorable progress from childhood's holiday realm ... into age, vice, disillusionment, and death. ... [This] pessimism is informed and sweetened, however, not only by the music to which it is set, but by the tolerance and acceptance of Feste himself."" There is no contemporary parallel for the role of Fool"
"non-Shakespearean story. ""Hamlet"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"" are the two plays which have most often been used in this way. Usually, Shakespeare's story has some parallel or resonance with the main plot. Films featuring characters performing scenes from ""Romeo and Juliet"" include the 1912 and 1982 film versions of Charles Dickens' ""Nicholas Nickleby"", ""Cured Hams"" (1927), ""Drama De Luxe"" (1927), ""Broadway Fever"" (1928), ""Les amants de Vérone"" (1949), ""Marjorie Morningstar"" (1958), ""Carry on Teacher"" (1959) ""Shakespeare Wallah"" (1965) and, significantly, ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998). The 1941 film Playmates features bandleader Kay Kyser and Shakespearean actor John Barrymore playing themselves in"
"world. Shakespeare sings the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, when asked about his view of death (the song is titled ""Fear No More""). ""Fear no more the heat of the sun"" is the line that Winnie and her husband are trying to remember in Samuel Beckett's ""Happy Days"" as they sit exposed to the elements. Cymbeline Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (""c."" AD 10–14) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although"
"Howard describes as the ""playing Shakespeare is a gateway to self-fulfilment"" plot. As he explains it, ""an ill-matched crew of Elizabethan theatre people are transformed and united by the process of creating ""Romeo and Juliet"""". The film's climax includes Judi Dench's Elizabeth I declaring that Shakespeare's play ""can show us the very truth and nature of love."" For comprehensive list, see Romeo and Juliet (films). All references to ""Romeo and Juliet"", unless otherwise specified, are taken from Gibbons, Brian ""Romeo and Juliet"" Arden Shakespeare second series (London, Methuen, 1980, ). Under its referencing system, which uses Roman numerals, II.ii.33 means"
"beautiful sonnets (""We See the Light""). Nigel is not very happy with ""Omelette"" and claims that it doesn't feel right. Brother Jeremiah interrupts the lovers and takes Portia away to be imprisoned in a tower for disobeying. Saddened by the loss of his love, Nigel becomes inspired to write a completely different play that is revealed to be ""Hamlet"". Nigel goes into the theatre the next day and tells Nick about his new improvements. They get into a huge argument and Shakespeare tries to take advantage of their squabble to get his hit (""To Thine Own Self""). A hurt Nigel"
"play out. The earliest of the mature soliloquies occur in ""Julius Caesar"" where Shakespeare develops Brutus as a forerunner of Hamlet: the self-critical and honest man struggling to do what’s right in unpropitious circumstances. Hamlet’s seven soliloquies, and the single major soliloquy of Claudius in ""Hamlet"" can all be described as ‘a search for a difficult sincerity’, and represent Shakespeare’s most extended study of the workings of the human mind; it is not until the novels of Dostoyevsky that a character’s inner self is examined with such power, discrimination and technical skill. Shakespeare’s soliloquies are written in blank verse of"
"at the Greek banquet in Plato’s ""Symposium"" at which he gets the last word on the nature of love, proposing that it cannot be found in superficial appearance. Performance history in Shakespeare's lifetime is unknown, though the same is also true of his more highly regarded plays such as"" Antony and Cleopatra"" and ""Coriolanus,"" which most scholars believe were written in the same period. The earliest known performance of the straight Shakespearean text was at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin in 1761. The earliest-known production of a predominantly Shakespearean version of the play in the United Kingdom was at Sadler's"
"begins ""To be or not to be; that is the question"". Unlike the introverted Hamlet, whose fatal flaw is hesitation, the heroes of the tragedies that followed, Othello and King Lear, are undone by hasty errors of judgement. The plots of Shakespeare's tragedies often hinge on such fatal errors or flaws, which overturn order and destroy the hero and those he loves. In ""Othello"", the villain Iago stokes Othello's sexual jealousy to the point where he murders the innocent wife who loves him. In ""King Lear"", the old king commits the tragic error of giving up his powers, initiating the"
"recognised to be Shakespeare's own. Plays marked with an asterisk (*) are now commonly referred to as the 'romances'. Plays marked with two asterisks (**) are sometimes referred to as the 'problem plays'. Shakespearean comedy In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies, though today many scholars recognize a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedies that appear as Shakespeare's later works. There are ten plays by Shakespeare which are consistently understood as being comedies by name and genre. More ambiguously, there are 17 of Shakespeare's plays"
"the play deliberately parodies its own content. Harold Bloom says ""Cymbeline, in my judgment, is partly a Shakespearean self parody; many of his prior plays and characters are mocked by it."" In Act V Scene IV, """"Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt."""" After stating that Posthumus' fortunes will improve, Jupiter returns to heaven on his eagle. In one scene, a character seems to say that a plot point is to be ""laughed at"". When it is explained how the king's children were abducted, a minor character adds, ""the negligence may well be"
"for the audience's approval. The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"". Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"". The name of the play expresses the proverb ""All's well that ends well"", which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good. There is no evidence that ""All's Well"" was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism."
"being ranked among the world's greatest plays), and transformed English theatre by expanding expectations about what could be accomplished through plot and language. Specifically, in plays like ""Hamlet"", Shakespeare ""integrated characterization with plot,"" such that if the main character was different in any way, the plot would be totally changed. In ""Romeo and Juliet"", Shakespeare mixed tragedy and comedy together to create a new romantic tragedy genre (previous to Shakespeare, romance had not been considered a worthy topic for tragedy). Through his soliloquies, Shakespeare showed how plays could explore a character's inner motivations and conflict (up until Shakespeare, soliloquies were"