"From which Shakespeare play does the following line come ""All that glisters is not gold""?"
"the showers upon the herb,” were echoed in the first words of the speech, “The quality of mercy is not strained. / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath.” All references to ""The Merchant of Venice"", unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library's ""Folger Digital Editions"" texts edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles. Under their referencing system, 3.1.55 means act 3, scene 1, line 55. Prologues, epilogues, scene directions, and other parts of the play that are not a part of character speech in a scene,"
"All that glitters is not gold ""All that glitters is not gold"" is a well-known saying, meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can be applied to just about any experience in life. While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th century, the current saying is derived from a 16th-century line by William Shakespeare. The expression, in various forms, originated in or before the 12th century and may date back to Æsop. The Latin is ""Non omne quod nitet aurum est."" The French monk Alain de Lille"
"All that is gold does not glitter ""All That is Gold Does Not Glitter"" (alternatively known as ""The Riddle of Strider"" or ""Song of Aragorn"") is a poem written by J. R. R. Tolkien for his fantasy novel ""The Lord of the Rings"". It alludes to an integral part of the plot that describes Aragorn, son of Arathorn. The poem appears twice in ""The Fellowship of the Ring"", the first volume of ""The Lord of the Rings"". It appears first in Chapter Ten, ""Strider"", in Gandalf's letter to Frodo Baggins in Bree, although when Frodo reads it he does not"
"the poem, which at that stage of composition was the only content of Gandalf's letter, reads: The second quatrain was added during the following revision: The lines were changed in stages, with many experimental forms rejected. Christopher Tolkien also suggested that """"the Sword that was Broken"" [""Narsil""]"" actually emerged from the verse 'All that is gold does not glitter' in the version cited above. On this view, the words """"a king may yet be without crown, A blade that was broken be brandished"""" were no more than a further exemplification of the general moral. All that is gold does not"
"and danger. Line seven refers to the sword Narsil. Line eight foreshadows the crownless Aragorn's accession to the throne of both the kingless Gondor and the vanished Arnor. Older editions of ""The Lord of the Rings"" indexed the poem as ""The Riddle of Strider"". From the 50th anniversary edition of 2005 on, the new, enlarged index by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull list it as ""All that is gold does not glitter"". Early versions of the poem are recorded in ""The Treason of Isengard"", part of ""The History of Middle-earth"" book series by Christopher Tolkien. The first draft of"
"""sorrows longer"", and making ""grief’s length seem stronger” (lines 13-14). An alternate interpretation substitutes the quarto’s ""guil’st"" (line 12) with the word ""gildest"" (defined as: adorns with a thin layer of gold). This substitution was first made in an 18th Century edition of Shakespeare’s works, edited by Edmond Malone, which many editors follow. With this emendation the poet flatters the night by saying that even when ""stars twire [peer and wink] not, thou gildest the even"" (evening). The high level of ambiguity in the third quatrain is thought to be deliberate and intended to derail a simple reading of a"
"""a fav'rite has no friend"", ""[k]now one false step is ne'er retrieved"" and ""nor all that glisters, gold"". (Walpole later displayed the fatal china vase (the tub) on a pedestal at his house in Strawberry Hill.) Gray's surviving letters also show his sharp observation and playful sense of humour. He is well known for his phrase, ""where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."" The phrase, from """", is possibly one of the most misconstrued phrases in English literature. Gray is not promoting ignorance, but is reflecting with nostalgia on a time when he was allowed to be ignorant,"
"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"
"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."
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Hamlet"". They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it. The characters were revived in W. S. Gilbert's satire, ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"", and as the alienated heroes of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play, ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"", which was adapted into a film. ""Rosencrantz"" (""rosary"") and ""Gyldenstjerne/Gyllenstierna"" (""golden star"") were names of Danish (and Norwegian, and Swedish) noble families of the 16th century; records of the Danish royal coronation of"
"much, but think the more"" (4.1.85) and ""Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter:/I stay not for love of Edward but the crown"" (141.124–125); Warwick's ""O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come"" (5.1.18); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry (ll.61–93) and Richard's ""To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master/And cried 'All hail', whenas he meant all harm"" (5.7.33–34). The play also featured in ITV's ""Will Shakespeare"", a 1978 six-part (heavily fictionalised) biopic of Shakespeare (Tim Curry), written by John Mortimer. Episode one, ""Dead Shepherd"", focuses on Shakespeare's apprenticeship to"
"is not generally accepted as having been written by Shakespeare, but it is considered to be perhaps partially written by Shakespeare by a number of scholars, including Edward Capell, Eliot Slater, Eric Sams, Giorgio Melchiori, Brian Vickers, and others. The play, printed in 1596, contains lines that also appear in Shakespeare’s sonnets: ""Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds” occurs in sonnet 94 and ""scarlet ornaments” occurs in sonnet 142. The same scene of the play that contains those quotations, is a comic scene that features and spoofs a poet attempting to compose a love poem at the behest"
"what they do"" (4.4.37), echoing the Gospel of Luke: ""Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do"" (23:34). Earlier in the play, he refers to heaven as ""the treasury of everlasting joy"" (2.1.18), recalling the Gospel of Matthew's ""lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven"" (6:20), and then a few lines later he muses ""blessèd are the peacemakers on earth"" (2.1.34), echoing Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. On both of these occasions however, Cardinal Winchester, ostensibly a pious man, distorts Henry's genuine piety. After Henry's assessment of heaven, Winchester says to Gloucester, ""Thy heaven is on earth, thine"
"which King James was offended and the play's authors were imprisoned. ""Eastward Ho!"" also references, even parodies, popular plays performed by adult companies such as ""The Spanish Tragedy"", ""Tamburlaine"", and ""Hamlet"". The play's title alludes to ""Westward Ho!"" by Thomas Dekker and John Webster who also wrote ""Northward Ho!"" in response that same year""."" William Touchstone, a London goldsmith, chastises his apprentice Francis “Frank” Quicksilver for his laziness and prodigality. Concerned with his reputation, he tells Quicksilver to consider his actions with the catchphrase, ""Work upon that now!"" (1.1.10-1). Touchstone also warns Quicksilver against dishonest business and bad company, but"
"/ As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep."" The text of each song is derived from plays by William Shakespeare: The first song is a setting of Ariel's Song to Ferdinand from ""The Tempest"". It refers to Ferdinand's father — Alonso, King of Naples — who is presumed drowned in a shipwreck and whose body undergoes a magical transformation in the ocean depths. ""The Tempest"", Act 1 scene 2: ""Full fathom five thy father lies,Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth"
"Lysander's. Both are more outwardly romantic and thoughtful than their partners, and both speak those lines most pertinent to the play's themes of romantic maturity and the source of lasting love. While Lysander says, 'the course of true love ne'er did run smooth', Helena's speech in Act I includes the well-known quote: ""Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind."" Her name is reminiscent of Helen of Troy, a reference made by Theseus towards the play's end, and her character is similar to another of Shakespeare's Helenas in ""All's Well That"
"San Francisco before a Nickel Creek show at the Great American Music Hall. The album's title is taken from a poem in J. R. R. Tolkien's ""The Fellowship of the Ring"", ""All that is gold does not glitter"". The title of the song ""Riddles in the Dark"" is also rooted in the works of Tolkien. It is the title of one of the chapters of ""The Hobbit"", the chapter in which Bilbo and Gollum compete in a contest of riddles. The title of the song ""Club G.R.O.S.S."" comes from the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. The club was started by"
"1600, and several later writers have used parts of it in their own texts. Parts of the speech appear in films such as ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), ""Tombstone"" (1993), ""Renaissance Man"" (1994), ""This Is England"" (2006), and ""Their Finest"" (2017). It has also been used in television series such as ""Rough Riders"" (1997), ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", ""The Black Adder"" and ""Doctor Who"". St Crispin's Day Speech The St Crispin's Day speech is from Shakespeare's history play ""Henry V"", in Scene iii 18–67. In the speech, which fell on Saint Crispin's Day, Henry V urged his men"
"counts as a separate setting, but since the truth is that the travellers do not leave the mansion gardens, the Unity of Place is not violated. The title refers to Kate's ruse of pretending to be a barmaid to reach her goal. It originates in the poetry of Dryden, which Goldsmith may have seen misquoted by Lord Chesterfield. In Chesterfield's version, the lines in question read: ""The prostrate lover, when he lowest lies, But stoops to conquer, and but kneels to rise."" Goldsmith's friend and contemporary, Samuel Johnson greatly admired the play. James Boswell quoted him as saying, ""I know"
"Geoffrey, the school's bursar, Annabelle and a small group of the girls make it to the theatre, and while the girls head underneath the building, Camilla and Geoffrey pose as actors they knocked out to avoid raising an alarm. Although the girls make it to the treasure's location within a secret room, they discover a chest within containing nothing more than a note from Pirate Fritton, who gave up being a pirate to write plays under the name of William Shakespeare, and that the treasure was the final play he wrote intended to reveal that ""he"" was a woman. Piers,"
"admonishes Nigel. In a rage, Nick goes back to Nostradamus with what he has left of the money he stole from the Money Box. He asks Nostradamus to tell him what Shakespeare's new hit is going to be, and Nostradamus sees ""Hamlet"", but misinterprets it as ""Omelette"", among other mistakes (such as the Prince eating a danish pastry rather than being a Danish prince). He gets excited at the possibilities of success and dreams of a future in which crowds cheer for him and Shakespeare bows down to him (""Bottom's Gonna Be on Top""). The Minstrel welcomes the audience back"
"This was the counterpart to his brother, the Black Prince's, ""shield for peace"" (on which the ostrich feathers were white), and may have been used in jousting. The ostrich feather arms appeared in stained glass above Gaunt's chantry chapel in St Paul's Cathedral. John of Gaunt is a character in William Shakespeare's play ""Richard II"". Shortly before he dies, he makes a speech that includes the lines ""This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars ... This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"". He is also referred to by Falstaff"
"Portia's boxes (Act II - Scene VII - Prince of Morocco): Panning for gold often results in finding pyrite, nicknamed fool's gold, which reflects substantially more light than authentic gold does. Gold in its raw form appears dull and lusterless. The original version of the saying used the word ""glisters"", but ""glitters"" long ago became the predominant form. Poet John Dryden used ""glitter"" in his 1687 poem ""The Hind and the Panther"". The words ""glister"" and ""glitter"" have the same meaning. In pop culture, this phrase shows up in Bob Marley's ""Get Up, Stand Up"". It is also used as"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) ""Nothing Gold Can Stay"" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in ""The Yale Review"" in October of that year. It was later published in the collection ""New Hampshire"" (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ""New Hampshire"" also included Frost's poems ""Fire and Ice"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, ""Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,'"
"composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity. Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities, minutely finished, wrought into shape, and polished unto brightness. Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerals."" Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1795-1796 ""Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"" (book IV, chap. 3"
"phase. Gareth, toward the end of his quest, accepts a ring from his paramour, Lyoness, which transforms his armor into multicolors. This alludes to the panchromatic philosopher's stone, and while he is in multicolored armor, he is unbeatable. ""The Tempest"" is the most alchemically influenced of all William Shakespeare's work, steeped as it is in alchemical imagery (dying Kings and sons, Ariel as the spirit Mercurius etc.) with Prospero as the archetypal Magus. The main character in the play ""Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"", by Ann-Marie MacDonald, succeeds in determining the alchemy behind Shakespeare's ""Othello"". Literary alchemy continues to be"
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of ""Hamlet"" by William Shakespeare. The main characters in Gilbert's play are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, their son Prince Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Ophelia. Gilbert's play first appeared in ""Fun"" magazine in 1874 after having been rejected for production by several theatre companies. The first performance of the work was not until June 1891, a benefit matinée at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. The play finally ran at the Court"
"no apparrell but natural, no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corne, or mettle. The very words that import lying, falsehood, treason, dissimulation, covetousnes, envie, detraction, and pardon, were never heard of amongst them."" In addition, much of Prospero's renunciative speech (5.1.33–57) echoes a speech by Medea in Ovid's poem ""Metamorphoses"". ""The Tempest"" presents relatively few textual problems in comparison with many of Shakespeare's other plays. First published in the First Folio in December 1623, the play is first in the volume, leading the section of comedies. The play has more stage directions than any of Shakespeare's other plays,"
"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,"
"(1600), ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1600), ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (1600), ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (1602), ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (1609), ""Troilus and Cressida"" (1609), ""Othello"" (1622). The second, or ""good"", quarto of ""Hamlet"" (1604) also uses this spelling. It is also spelled this way on the misattributed quarto of ""Sir John Oldcastle"" (1600; 1619) and on the verse collection ""The Passionate Pilgrim"" (1599). Rarer spellings are ""Shakspeare"" on the first quarto of ""King Lear"" (1608), and ""Shakeſpere"", in the first quarto of ""Love's Labour's Lost"" (1598). On the misattributed quarto ""A Yorkshire Tragedy"" (1608) his name is spelled"
"When the lights come on again, Hamlet has vanished (in ""Hamlet"" it is reported that he was kidnapped by pirates from the ship). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern panic, and re-read the letter to find that it now calls for them to be put to death instead of the prince. Guildenstern cannot understand why he and Rosencrantz are so important as to necessitate their executions. The Player tells Guildenstern that all paths end in death. Guildenstern snaps and draws the Player's dagger from his belt, shouting at him that his portrayals of death do not do justice to the real thing. He"
"to others that we know not of.<br> Aye that, O this conscience makes cowards of us all,<br> Lady in thy orizons, be all my sins remembered. The text of the Second Quarto (Q2) is considered the earliest version of the play. In Q2 the whole nunnery scene including 'To be' takes place later in the play than in Q1 where it occurs directly after Claudius and Polonius have planned it and the addition of ""Soft you now"", suggesting that Hamlet has not (or is feigning having not) seen Ophelia thus far during his speech. To be, or not to be,"
"The following three lines are particularly dense with allusion: <poem> His steeds to water at those springs </poem> These phrases are explained by William Warburton (sometime Bishop of Gloucester) in a succinct paraphrase in his 1747 edition of Alexander Pope's version of Shakespeare: represented by the mythical horses which pull Phoebus' fiery chariot, ""the morning sun dries the dew which lies in the cups of flowers."" The stanza or stave of this song is one of four fourteen-syllable verses, and a refrain. Alexander Pope tampered with the division of Shakespeare's lines as they stood in the First Folio. Sir Thomas"