'Frailty thy name is woman' is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?
"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"
"were passing through Frederick. This event is the subject of the 1864 poem: Her name was ""Barbara Hauer Frietchie"" Barbara Frietchie Barbara Frietchie, The Frederick Girl is a play in four acts by Clyde Fitch and based on the heroine of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem ""Barbara Frietchie"" (based on a real person: Barbara Fritchie). Fitch takes a good bit of artistic liberty and intertwines her story with that of his own grandparents' love story, which also takes place during the Civil War. Barbara Stanwyck took her film name from the name of the play, and a British actress named Joan"
"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"
"Julian Sturgis, who wrote the libretto for Sullivan. Many of the characters in the play are reminiscent of those in Gilbert's Savoy Operas, including Somers/Boatswain; Ross/Dr. Daly; Ruth/Patience and Elsie; Alaric/Giuseppe; Mabel/Aline; and Thursby/Ludwig. Also, as in some of his earlier plays, including ""Charity"", Gilbert touches on the theme of how a shamed woman is truly the noblest in society. The character Ruth notes, regarding the scoundrel, Crampton, ""your heart was slow to turn; your eyes were closed. To open them it needed that a woman should clothe herself with shame. That has been done; and now, you see!"" And"
"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"
"My Fair Lady.jpg|thumb|Cinematographer Harry Stradling poses with [[Audrey Hepburn]] as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical ""My Fair Lady.""]] [[Category:1913 books]] [[Category:1913 plays]] [[Category:West End plays]] [[Category:Plays by George Bernard Shaw]] [[Category:Works originally published in Everybody's Magazine]] [[Category:Literature first published in serial form]] [[Category:Plays set in London]] [[Category:British plays adapted into films]] Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to"
"Mankind (play) Mankind is an English medieval morality play, written . The play is a moral allegory about Mankind, a representative of the human race, and follows his fall into sin and his repentance. Its author is unknown; the manuscript is signed by a monk named Hyngham, believed to have transcribed the play. ""Mankind"" is unique among moralities for its surprising juxtaposition of serious theological matters and colloquial (sometimes obscene) dialogue. Along with the morality plays ""Wisdom"" and ""The Castle of Perseverance"", ""Mankind"" belongs to the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. as a part of the"
"Barbara Frietchie Barbara Frietchie, The Frederick Girl is a play in four acts by Clyde Fitch and based on the heroine of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem ""Barbara Frietchie"" (based on a real person: Barbara Fritchie). Fitch takes a good bit of artistic liberty and intertwines her story with that of his own grandparents' love story, which also takes place during the Civil War. Barbara Stanwyck took her film name from the name of the play, and a British actress named Joan Stanwyck who starred in one of the play's productions, perhaps in London. An illustrated version of the poem is"
"Mary Shelley, the two main characters—Dr. Frankenstein and his ""creature""—are both together literary foils, functioning to compare one to the other. In Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice"", Mary's absorption in her studies places her as a foil to her sister Lydia Bennet's lively and distracted nature. Similarly, in Shakespeare's play ""Julius Caesar"", the character Brutus has foils in the two characters, Cassius and Mark Antony. In the play ""Romeo and Juliet"", Romeo and Mercutio serve as character foils for one another, as well as Macbeth and Banquo in his play ""Macbeth"". In William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Hamlet"", a foil is created"
"anxiety about men with feminine qualities, or women with masculine qualities, like Queen Elizabeth, of whom Caesar may or may not be representative. Sonnet 65 Sonnet 65 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 a continuation of Sonnet 64, and is an influential poem on the aspect of Time's destruction. Shakespeare also offers an escape from Time's clasp in his end couplet, suggesting that the love and human emotion he"
"distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off""; the Nurse in ""Romeo and Juliet"" says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that ""Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit""; or is told the time by Mercutio: ""for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon""; and in ""Hamlet"", Hamlet publicly torments Ophelia with a series of sexual puns, including ""country matters"" (similar to ""cunt""). The title of Shakespeare's play ""Much Ado"
"and fragility — associated with femininity — in favour of ambition, ruthlessness, and the singleminded pursuit of power. This conflict colours the entire drama and sheds light on gender-based preconceptions from Shakespearean England to the present. The role has attracted countless notable actors over the centuries, including Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Melmoth, Helen Faucit, Ellen Terry, Jeanette Nolan, Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Vivien Merchant, Glenda Jackson, Francesca Annis, Judith Anderson, Judi Dench, Renee O'Connor, Keeley Hawes, Alex Kingston and Marion Cotillard and Hannah Taylor-Gordon Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth appeared to be a composite of two personages found in the account of King"
"She-tragedy The term she-tragedy, also known as """"pathetic tragedy"""" refers to a vogue in the late 17th and early 18th centuries for tragic plays focused on the sufferings of a woman, sometimes innocent and virtuous but often a woman who has committed some sort of sexual sin. Prominent she-tragedies include Thomas Otway's ""The Orphan"" (1680), John Banks' ""Virtue Betrayed, or, Anna Bullen"" (1682), Thomas Southerne's ""The Fatal Marriage"" (1694) and Nicholas Rowe's ""The Fair Penitent"" (1703) and ""Lady Jane Grey"" (1715). Rowe was the first to use the term ""she-tragedy,"" in 1714. When English drama was reborn in 1660 with"
"as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: """"I burn, I pine, I perish"""". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: """"Sweet love, renew thy force""""."
"Sonnet 151 Sonnet 151 is the 151st of 154 poems in sonnet form by William Shakespeare published in a 1609 collection titled ""Shakespeare's sonnets"". The sonnet belongs to the Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–152), which distinguishes itself from The Fair Youth sequence by being more overtly sexual in its passion. Sonnet 151 is characterized as ""bawdy"" and is used to illustrate the difference between the spiritual love for the ""Fair Youth"" and the sexual love for the ""Dark Lady"". The distinction is commonly made in the introduction to modern editions of the sonnets in order to avoid suggesting that Shakespeare"
"Elizabethan pronunciation of ""surety"". Sonnet 134 Sonnet 134 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. In it, the speaker confronts the Dark Lady after learning that she has seduced the Fair Youth. In the first quatrain, the speaker confesses that both he and the friend are at the mistress's mercy; in the second one, he surmises that the attachment will hold, due to the friend's naivete and the mistress's greed. The remainder of the poem construes the mistress as an unethical moneylender: metaphorically, she lent her beauty to the speaker and then collected"
"obvious truism, Shakespeare's first published work, (Venus and Adonis), described a 'woman's son', Adonis, who refuses the advances of the goddess of love."" The third quatrain begins with the turn in line nine, ""Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,"" with ""seat"" referring to designated area for sexual activity. Here in the sonnet, after many attempts to invent excuses for the youth, he is finally honest about his hurt and can no longer deceive himself. Shakespeare alludes to another of his works here, with the word ""seat"" used with the same meaning by the character Iago in Othello,"
"when thou thyself art dead; A problem with identifying the fair youth with Southampton is that the most certainly datable events referred to in the Sonnets are the fall of Essex and then the gunpowder plotters’ executions in 1606, which puts Southampton at the age of 33, and then 39 when the sonnets were published, when he would be past the age when he would be referred to as a ""lovely boy"" or ""fair youth"". Authors like Thomas Tyrwhitt and Oscar Wilde proposed that the Fair Youth was William Hughes, a seductive young actor who played female roles in Shakespeare's"
"Women in Shakespeare's works Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s. A considerable number of book-length studies and academic articles investigate the topic, and several moons of Uranus are named after women in Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's tragedies and his plays in general, there are several types of female characters. They influence other characters, but are also often underestimated. Women in Shakespearean plays have"
"Brother, Where Art Thou"" takes its story from the ancient Greek epic poem the ""Odyssey"", while taking its name from the movie ""O Brother, Where Art Thou?"" (also based on the ""Odyssey""), ""Hot Child in the City"" is based on the life and legend of Saint Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who, as a teenager, led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War. ""Do the Bard, Man"" spoofs William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Hamlet"", while the title takes its name from ""Do the Bartman"", a song performed by Bart early in the series. The song"
"Sonnet 20 Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author. In this sonnet (as in, for example, Sonnet 53) the beloved's beauty is compared to both a man's and a woman's. Sonnet 20 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains and a couplet for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the rhyme scheme of this"
"Charity (play) Charity is a drama in four acts by W. S. Gilbert that explores the issue of a woman who had lived with a man as his wife without ever having married. The play analyses and critiques the double standard in the Victorian era concerning the treatment of men and women who had sex outside of marriage, anticipating the ""problem plays"" of Shaw and Ibsen. It opened on 3 January 1874 at the Haymarket Theatre in London, where Gilbert had previously presented his 'fairy comedies' ""The Palace of Truth"", ""Pygmalion and Galatea"", and ""The Wicked World"". ""Charity"" ran for"
"struggles between the great magnates of the era. In ""Henry VI part 3"" (Act III, Scene 2, lines 1645–50) Richard describes himself as follows: Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb:<br> And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,<br> She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,<br> To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;<br> To make an envious mountain on my back,<br> Where sits deformity to mock my body;<br> To shape my legs of an unequal size. Two other plays of the Elizabethan era predated Shakespeare's work. The Latin-language drama ""Richardus Tertius"" (1579) by Thomas"
"words, Shakespeare ""invented the formula that the sexual becomes the erotic when crossed by the shadow of death"". Of Shakespeare's works, ""Romeo and Juliet"" has generated the most—and the most varied—adaptations, including prose and verse narratives, drama, opera, orchestral and choral music, ballet, film, television, and painting. The word ""Romeo"" has even become synonymous with ""male lover"" in English. ""Romeo and Juliet"" was parodied in Shakespeare's own lifetime: Henry Porter's ""Two Angry Women of Abingdon"" (1598) and Thomas Dekker's ""Blurt, Master Constable"" (1607) both contain balcony scenes in which a virginal heroine engages in bawdy wordplay. The play directly influenced"
"Sonnet 107 Sonnet 107 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 poem repeats the theme of others, notably sonnet 18, that the poem itself will survive human mortality, and both the poet and Fair Youth will achieve immortality through it. In this case all the hazards of an unpredictable future are added to the inevitability of mortality. Sonnet 107 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed"
"Sonnet 64 Sonnet 64 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 opening quatrain begins with the personification of time, a destroyer of great things built by man, a force man cannot equal. The second quatrain portrays a victorless struggle between the sea and the land. In the last quatrain the speaker applies these lessons to his own situation, realizing that death is inevitable and time will come and take his love away."
"novel does have a frame story in which a professor of a Malaysian college named ""Mr. Burgess"" delivers his final lecture on the life of Shakespeare before returning to the United Kingdom while progressively becoming more drunk on rice wine and gradually less inhibited as the lecture progresses.The ""lecture"" begins with ""Mr. Burgess"" reading Sonnet 147, to which he will eventually reference as proof of Shakespeare contracting syphilis, proposing that his Dark Lady's name is spelled in acrostic in the poem, the letters F T M H being a latinization of the Arabic name ""Fatjmah"", meaning ""destiny"". The novel also"
"plays. Particularly, Wilde claimed that he was the Mr. W.H. referred to in the dedication attached to the manuscript of the Sonnets. The Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–154) Shakespeare is the most defiant of the sonnet tradition. The sequence distinguishes itself from the Fair Youth sequence with its overt sexuality (Sonnet 151). The Dark Lady is so called because she has black hair and dun coloured skin. The Dark Lady suddenly appears (Sonnet 127), and she and the speaker of the sonnets, the poet, are in a sexual relationship. She is not aristocratic, young, beautiful, intelligent or chaste. Her complexion"
"Sonnet 41 Sonnet 41 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a part of the Fair Youth section of the sonnets addressed to an unnamed young man. While the exact date of the composition is unknown, it was originally published in the 1609 Quarto along with the rest of the sonnets. Within the sonnet, the speaker excuses the Fair Youth's amorous activity due to his youth and attractiveness toward women, but also chides him for betraying the speaker by sleeping with his mistress. It is the second in a set of"
"of his time, who often and predominantly wrote about fair, virginal, young girls who were of high social status. As with the questioned identity of the inspiration for the Fair Youth sonnets, the identity of the original Dark Lady has been disputed and argued for centuries. Unlike the Fair Youth sonnets, however, there is little academic ""proof"" to back up any proposed female muses, though historical characters ranging from Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway, Emilia Lanier, and even Queen Elizabeth herself have been suggested as potential ""femme fatales"". Sonnet 147 reveals a paradox within the poet, and perhaps the population at"
"that when Shakespeare dramatised the poem and expanded Mercutio's role, he introduced a brother for him in order to suggest a more fraternal character. Shakespeare appears to be the first dramatist to have used the name Valentine prior to ""Romeo and Juliet"", but he himself had actually used the name previously. In ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"", a play about two brothers and also set in Verona, Valentine is a true and constant lover and Proteus is a fickle one. While not primarily based on it, ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"" adapts several incidents from Brooke's poem, and in all these instances"
"Aphelia has been unfaithful to him; Clotair binds his wife and Castrato tortures her (he ""sears her breast""). Castrato displays the corpses of Fredigond and Landrey, and Clotair understands that Aphelia is innocent and that he has been abused. Clotair stabs Castrato, who, dying, reveals her true identity as Chrotilda. Lamot and Dumain break into the castle with a party of supporters. The play's conclusion indicates that Clotair, Aphelia, and Chrotilda will die and that Clovis will inherit the throne. The Fatal Contract The Fatal Contract: A French Tragedy is a Caroline era stage play, written by William Heminges. The"
"Shakespeare's late romances The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre""; ""Cymbeline""; ""The Winter's Tale""; and ""The Tempest"". ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping. The term ""romances"" was first used for these late works in Edward Dowden's ""Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art"" (1875). Later writers have generally been content to adopt Dowden's term. Shakespeare's plays cannot be precisely dated, but it is generally agreed that these comedies followed a series of tragedies including"