"lines written by Montaigne: However, rather than being a direct influence on Shakespeare, Montaigne may have merely been reacting to the same general atmosphere of the time, making the source of these lines one of context rather than direct influence. What a piece of work is a man ""What a piece of work is man!"" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act"
"du min moder"" was described by the poet and literary historian Oscar Levertin as ""the to-be-or-not-to-be of Swedish literature"". To be, or not to be ""To be, or not to be"" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called ""nunnery scene"" of William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". Act III, Scene I. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling and five common emendations introduced from the Second (""Good"")"
"To be, or not to be ""To be, or not to be"" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called ""nunnery scene"" of William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". Act III, Scene I. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling and five common emendations introduced from the Second (""Good"") Quarto (italicized). To be, or not to be, that is the question:<br> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to"
"The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice (Antonio) must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for Shylock and the famous ""Hath not a Jew eyes?"" speech on humanity. Also notable is Portia's speech about ""the quality of"
"be condoned by arguing that the borrower is rich; nor even by arguing that the money borrowed is not left idle, but is spent usefully… In ""The Divine Comedy"" Dante places the usurers in the inner ring of the seventh circle of hell. Interest on loans, and the contrasting views on the morality of that practice held by Jews and Christians, is central to the plot of Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"". Antonio is the merchant of the title, a Christian, who is forced by circumstance to borrow money from Shylock, a Jew. Shylock customarily charges interest on loans,"
"Holmes and Norman Shelley as Watson. In 1979 composer Raimonds Pauls and songwriter, poet Jānis Peters wrote a musical ""Šerloks Holmss."" It premiered in Dailes Theatre with Valentīns Skulme as Holmes and Gunārs Placēns as Watson. There was a 2006 revival, again in Dailes Theatre. Gillette's Holmes is widely credited with being the first to utter ""Elementary, my dear Watson""—a phrase that never appears in Conan Doyle's stories—but the phrase cannot be definitely attributed to Gillette as its originator. The phrase that appears in the various texts ranges from ""Ho! (""Sneer"".) Elementary!"" (1922 Samuel French text; Act II Scene II),"
"apparent ontological paradox by inspiring Shakespeare to borrow phrases that the Doctor quotes from his plays. Examples of this include the Doctor telling Shakespeare that ""all the world's a stage"" (from ""As You Like It"") and ""the play's the thing"" (from ""Hamlet""), as well as the name Sycorax from ""The Tempest"". However, when Shakespeare himself coins the phrase ""To be, or not to be"", the Doctor suggests he write it down, but Shakespeare considers it ""too pretentious"". In a different version of the joke, the Doctor exclaims ""Once more unto the breach"", and Shakespeare initially likes the phrase, before realising"
"2: Act III, Scene 4: Act III, Scene 4: Act IV, Scene 4: Act V, Scene 1: Act V, Scene 2: ""Major links:"" ""Minor links:"" Phrases from Hamlet in common English William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"" has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous ""To be, or not to be"" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4:"
"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"
"mightst repossess the crown in peace/And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain"" (this is a truncated version of ll. 1-20). Apart from the omission of some lines, the most noticeable departure from the text of 5.7 is the inclusion of two characters who do not appear in the play; the Duke of Buckingham (played by Ralph Richardson) and Jane Shore (played by Pamela Brown). Buckingham is a major character throughout ""Richard III"", where he is Richard's closest ally for a time. Jane Shore is mentioned several times in ""Richard III"", and although she never features as a character,"
"Phrases from Hamlet in common English William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"" has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous ""To be, or not to be"" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4: Act I, scene 5: Act II, scene 2: ""Caviar to the general"" Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 Act III, scene 1: Act III, scene"
"thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees."" The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Richard III"", ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", and ""King Lear"". The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", among other characters. He was replaced around 1600 by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in ""As You Like It"" and the fool in ""King Lear"". In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton"
"two other works by Angela Carter: ""The Bloody Chamber"" and ""Nights at the Circus"". Throughout the novel, there are numerous references to the works and impact of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the novel there are three quotations, two of which allude to Shakespeare: """"Brush Up on Your Shakespeare"""", a song title from the musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", and the quote ""How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters"" by Ellen Terry, an English stage actress. In an interview on the subject of ""Wise Children"", Angela Carter"
"George Peele, Thomas Preston, Robert Wilson, and one Richard Bower. No convincing case has been made for any single candidate. ""Clyomon and Clamydes"" is thought to have had an influence on several of Shakespeare's plays. Most notably, Rosalind in ""As You Like It"" disguises herself in male clothing and flees courtly life for residence among simple shepherds—just as Neronis does in her play. In ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the playlet of the mechanicals in Act V bears a resemblance with ""Clyomon and Clamydes"", though in this case the resemblance is clearly in a spirit of parody. And the late romance"
"the same source used by Shakespeare. Shakespeare used Britain's mythical history in several of his plays, including ""King Lear"" and ""Cymbeline"", based on the stories of Leir of Britain and Cunobelinus, respectively. The play is essentially a pastiche of Shakespeare, with Vortigern serving as a Macbeth figure; other Shakespearean elements include the use of Holinshead and Flavia's cross-dressing. The play experienced a comedic revival by the Pembroke Players at the Pembroke College New Cellars, Cambridge, on November 19, 2008. The production was directed by Pembroke third-year Alexander Whiscombe, and starred David Harrap in the title role with Eystein Thanisch as"
"of this scene portrays him in a much more sinister light; most productions, including Laurence Olivier's famous 1948 film version, choose to remove it. The respective productions starring Richard Burton and Kenneth Branagh both include it. Although Hume Cronyn plays Polonius mostly for laughs in the Burton production, Polonius is more sinister than comic in Branagh's version. Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1 Scene 3 (""Neither a borrower nor a lender be""; ""To thine own self be true"") and Act 2 Scene 2 (""Brevity is the soul of wit""; and ""Though this be madness, yet there is"
"pass and stay not here thy gait."""" </poem> The play's date is uncertain, though its bitter tone links it with ""Coriolanus"" and ""King Lear."" John Day's play ""Humour Out of Breath,"" published in 1608, contains a reference to ""the lord that gave all to his followers, and begged more for himself""—a possible allusion to ""Timon"" that would, if valid, support a date of composition before 1608. It has been proposed that Shakespeare himself took the role of the Poet, who has the fifth-largest line count in the play. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register in 1623. There are"
"rhetoric for a literal request. The lyrics of Bob Dylan's ""Pay in Blood"" on his 2012 album ""Tempest"" include the line, ""I came to praise not to bury."" Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ""Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play ""Julius Caesar"", by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works. Antony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he"
"Shakespeare Festival, the play also marked that 500 years had passed since the Venetian Ghetto was instituted. The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice (Antonio) must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for Shylock and the famous"
"are depicted in the opening scene of Shakespeare's ""Richard II"". Thomas Mowbray (as he is called in the play) prophetically replies to King Richard's ""Lions make leopards tame"" with the retort, ""Yea, but not change his spots."" Mowbray's death in exile is announced later in the play by the Bishop of Carlisle. Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, 6th Baron Mowbray, 7th Baron Segrave, , (22 March 1366 – 22 September 1399) was an English peer. As a result of his involvement in the"
"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"
"for other groups that are purportedly targeted for unequal treatment, as in the examples ""flying while Muslim"" and ""breathing while Republican"". ""To or not to "" is a template based on the line ""To be, or not to be"", spoken by the titular character in William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"" ( 1600). This template appears to have existed even prior to ""Hamlet"", and had previously been used specifically in a religious context to discuss ""actions that are at once contradictory and indifferent—actions that, because they are neither commanded nor prohibited by Scripture, good nor evil in themselves, Christians are free to"
"the debts they owe to Pisaro). The play displays a popular dislike of Englishwomen being courted by foreigners that is also expressed in Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"", which was written and acted at about the same time (c. 1597–99). Critics have studied the play for its attitude toward, and treatment of, foreigners in England. Some critics have interpreted the character Pisaro as a Jew; though the word ""Jew"" is never used in the play, Pisaro compares himself to Judas and is called ""Signior Bottle-nose,"" which has been read as an expression of the anti-Semitism endemic in English and"
"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."
"is mightily enriched"". He names twelve plays written by Shakespeare, including four which were never published in quarto: ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"", ""The Comedy of Errors"", ""Love's Labour's Won"", and ""King John"", as well as ascribing to Shakespeare some of the plays that were published anonymously before 1598—""Titus Andronicus"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", and ""Henry IV, Part 1"". He refers to Shakespeare's ""sug[a]red Sonnets among his private friends"" 11 years before the publication of the Sonnets. In the rigid social structure of Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare was entitled to use the honorific ""gentleman"" after his father was granted a coat"
"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"
"in Oxford. It was never published, and it is unlikely to have served as a basis for ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"". Another play on the topic, the authorship of which is not known, would certainly have been known to Shakespeare and Fletcher. It was performed by the Admiral's Men in September 1594, which had then recently been formed after a split in Shakespeare's own company. Philip Henslowe commissioned the play, which may have influenced Shakespeare's own ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", which is usually considered to have been written around this time. The comic sub-plot involving the jailer's daughter has no"
"of unimpugnable evidence"". In 2012, they renewed this call in their e-book ""Shakespeare Bites Back"", adding that it ""denies history"", and again the following year in their book ""Shakespeare Beyond Doubt"". Marlowe has been used as a character in plays, novels, films and TV-productions. The dates of composition are approximate. The play ""Lust's Dominion"" was attributed to Marlowe upon its initial publication in 1657, though scholars and critics have almost unanimously rejected the attribution. He may also have written or co-written ""Arden of Faversham"". Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593),"
"horse. The sonnets that Shakespeare satirizes in his plays are sonnets written in the tradition of Petrarch and Sidney, whereas Shakespeare's sonnets published in the quarto of 1609 take a radical turn away from that older style, and have none of the lovelorn qualities that are mocked in the plays. The sonnets published in 1609 seem to be rebelling against the tradition. In the play ""Love’s Labour’s Lost"", the King and his three lords have all vowed to live like monks, to study, to give up worldly things, and to see no women. All of them break this last part"
"believed that Shakespeare in his retirement was revising his oeuvre ""for definitive publication"". The ""apprentice plays"" which had been reworked were naturally omitted from the Folio. Sams also rejected 20th-century orthodoxy on Shakespeare's collaboration: with the exception of ""Sir Thomas More"", ""Two Noble Kinsmen"" and ""Henry VIII"", the plays were solely his, though many were only partly revised. By Sams' authorship- and dating-arguments, Shakespeare wrote not only the earliest ""modern"" chronicle play, ""The Troublesome Reign"", c.1588, but also ""the earliest known modern comedy and tragedy"", ""A Shrew"" and the Ur-""Hamlet"" ( = the 1603 Quarto). Sams also argued, more briefly,"
"1989, and follows the events in ""The Merchant of Venice"". In this play Shylock gets his wealth back and becomes a Jew again. The ""Star Trek"" franchise sometimes quote and paraphrase Shakespeare, including ""The Merchant of Venice"". One example is the Shakespeare-aficionado Chang in """" (1991), a Klingon, who quotes Shylock. Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"" (1993) depicts SS Lieutenant Amon Göth quoting Shylock's ""Hath Not a Jew eyes?"" speech when deciding whether or not to rape his Jewish maid. In David Fincher's 1995 crime thriller ""Seven"", a lawyer, Eli Gould, is coerced to remove a pound of his own flesh"
"English drama include the Jewish moneylender Shylock in William Shakespeare's ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1598) and the title character of Ben Jonson's ""Volpone"" (1606). In Aubrey Beardsley's title page for the latter, Volpone is shown worshiping his possessions, in illustration of the lines from the play, ""Dear Saint, / Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues."" A similar scene takes place in the second act of Alexander Pushkin's short tragedy ""Skupoi rytsar"" (1836). This concerns a son, Albert, kept short of funds by his father, the Baron. Under the title The Miserly Knight, it was made an opera"
"usury, of charging 20% and 25% interest. Elizabethan divines preached uncompromisingly against usury in principle but often tolerated it in practice: the Act against Usury of 1571, while providing punishments for usury above and below 10%, unwittingly legitimized a standard interest rate of 10%. Thus, Shakespeare plays with tens, and a tenfold return on the investment is to be desired. Sonnet 6 Sonnet 6 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. The sonnet continues Sonnet 5, thus forming a diptych. It also contains"