"an authoritative text of Shakespeare. Johnson began reading Shakespeare's plays and poetry when he was a young boy. He would involve himself so closely with the plays that he was once terrified by the Ghost in ""Hamlet"" and had to ""have people about him"". Johnson's fascination with Shakespeare continued throughout his life, and Johnson focused his time on Shakespeare's plays while preparing ""A Dictionary of the English Language"", so it is no wonder that Shakespeare is the most quoted author in it. Johnson came to believe that there was a problem with the collections of Shakespearean plays that were available"
"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,"
"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"")"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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),"
"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:"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"property to Lorenzo and Jessica, which is to become effective after his demise, and second, he is to immediately convert to Christianity. Shylock is forced to agree to these terms, and he exits citing illness. In Shakespeare's time, no Jews had been legally present in England for several hundred years (since the Edict of Expulsion in 1290). However, stereotypes of Jews as money lenders remained from the Middle Ages. Historically, money lending had been a fairly common occupation among Jews, in part because Christians were not permitted to practise usury, then considered to mean charging interest of any kind on"
"Sonnet 66 Sonnet 66 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 66 is a world-weary, desperate list of grievances of the state of the poet's society. The speaker criticizes three things: general unfairness of life, societal immorality, and oppressive government. Lines 2 and 3 illustrate the economic unfairness caused by one's station or nobility: <poem> As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, (66.2-3) </poem> Lines 4-7 portray"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"corruption of the court. This theme, which was prominent in the voguish satire of the 1590s. As he would in ""Hamlet"", Shakespeare draws on the language of abuse derived ultimately from Roman satirists such as Juvenal and Horace. The combination of satiric and romantic language is commonly said to reinforce the speaker's ambivalence about his beloved. M. M. Mahood notes the lexical uncertainty of line 1, which leaves open the possibility that the friend himself is infected. For this reason, Roger Warren points to a thematic similarity to ""All's Well That Ends Well"", whose hero, Bertram, is similarly ambiguous. ""Lace"""
"line 6's ""given"" function as one syllable. Sonnet 117 Shakespeare's sonnet 117 was first published in 1609. It uses similar imagery to Sonnet 116 and expands on the challenge in the closing couplet (""If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved""). Using legally resonant metaphors (""accuse"", ""bonds"", ""proof"", ""appeal"", ""prove""), the poet defends himself against accusations of ingratitude and infidelity by saying that he was merely testing (or proving) the constancy of those same things in his friend. Sonnet 117 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three"
"free verse is meaningful. McGuire argues that Shakespeare, with his variation in verse, is claiming to not be a ""dweller on form"" (line 5) and ""free"" (line 10) from the repetitive form of the traditional ""English sonnet"", adding to the symbolism contained in the lines. McGuire also states that the speaker of the sonnet exclaims that his ""oblation"" (line 10 ) to his beloved is ""poor but free"" (line 10) and ""knows no art/, But mutual render, only me for thee"" (lines 11-12) which directly pertains to the rhyme scheme, as rhyme in itself is ""mutual render"" (line 12), dependent"
"sympathy and pleading the cause of the actor: ""For never anything can be amiss / when simpleness and duty tender it ..."" Robin Starveling Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of ""Pyramus and Thisbe"". His part is often considered one of the more humorous in the play, as he uses a lantern in a failed attempt to portray Moonshine and is wittily derided by his audience. In ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is"
"the phrase, pointing to earlier instances. Another possible explanation is that the phrase draws its origins from William Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"", in which the antagonist Shylock stipulates that the protagonist Antonio must promise a pound of his own flesh as collateral, to be exacted by Shylock in the event that Antonio's friend Bassanio defaults on the loan to which Antonio is guarantor. The term is used to ask or convey an owner(s) or principals undefined but significant equity stake in an investment vehicle where outside investors are solicited to invest. The theory is that principal's equity contribution"
"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"
"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"
"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 not blame them for Caesar's death; however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins ""I come to bury Caesar, not 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"