"After William Shakespeare, who is the most frequently quoted writer in the English language with phrases like ""Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die""?"
"who they think are responsible for the kidnapping. In the original, the Goth chief says ""Faut pas chercher à comprendre"", meaning ""We shouldn't try to understand"", a common French phrase with no particular pun attached. In the English version, the chief instead comments ""Ours is not to reason why"", a reference to The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which states in its third stanza ""Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die"". In earlier translations, such as in ""Valiant"" and ""Ranger""/""Look and Learn"" (see below), other versions of names have appeared. An edited-down version"
"writers lacked the vocabulary to express such ideas. To accommodate this, writers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare expressed new ideas and distinctions by inventing, borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language, known as neologizing. Scholars estimate that, between the years 1500 and 2018, nouns, verbs and modifiers of Latin, Greek and modern Romance languages added 30,000 new words to the English language. Shakespeare's works have been a major influence on subsequent theatre. Shakespeare created some of the most admired plays in Western literature (with ""Macbeth, Hamlet"" and ""King Lear"""
"include George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming, Walter Scott, Agatha Christie, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Daphne du Maurier, Alan Moore, Ian McEwan, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams, P. G. Wodehouse, Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, H. Rider Haggard, Enid Blyton, Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro, and J. K. Rowling. Important British"
"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"
"Wallace Stevens for a certain quality of gravitas, what Keats feels near his death, when he said he was living a sort of posthumous existence; Philip Larkin for his sense of extremity; Pound for his fluidity of conception and hardness of execution; Baudelaire for his music and intense scrutiny and affection for street life; and Bishop and Lowell for their immersion in the physical world, would be my fathers and mothers. Tom Sleigh Tom Sleigh () is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who lives in New York City. He has published nine books of original poetry, one full-length"
"and Spenser. This poem circulated very widely in manuscript and survives today in more than two dozen contemporary copies; several of these have a fuller, variant title ""On Mr. William Shakespeare, he died in April 1616"", which unambiguously specifies that the reference is to Shakespeare of Stratford. Shakespeare's are the most studied secular works in history. Contemporary comments and textual studies support the authorship of someone with an education, background, and life span consistent with that of William Shakespeare. There is no record that any contemporary of Shakespeare referred to him as a learned writer or scholar. Ben Jonson and"
"Shakespeare's influence Shakespeare's influence extends from theatre and literature to present-day movies, Western philosophy, and the English language itself. William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He transformed European theatre by expanding expectations about what could be accomplished through innovation in characterization, plot, language and genre. Shakespeare's writings have also impacted a large number of notable novelists and poets over the years, including Herman Melville Charles Dickens, and Maya Angelou, and continue to influence new authors even today. Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the"
"- W. S. Graham - Robert Graves - Thomas Hardy - H. D. - Thomas Hennell - Rayner Heppenstall - Ralph Hodgson - A. E. Housman - James Joyce - Patrick Kavanagh - Sidney Keyes - Rudyard Kipling - James Kirkup - D. H. Lawrence - Laurie Lee - Alun Lewis - C. Day Lewis - Hugh MacDiarmid - Patrick MacDonogh - Louis MacNeice - John Masefield - Harold Monro - T. Sturge Moore - Edwin Muir - Henry Newbolt - Robert Nichols - Norman Nicholson - Wilfred Owen - Herbert Palmer - Ruth Pitter - William Plomer - Paul"
"Davies of Hereford - Charles Best - William Shakespeare - John Davies - John Donne - Ben Jonson - Lord Herbert of Cherbury - William Drummond of Hawthornden - Mary Wroth - Robert Herrick - George Herbert - John Milton - Charles Cotton - Thomas Gray - Charlotte Turner Smith - William Blake - Robert Burns - William Wordsworth - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Robert Southey - Mary F. Johnson - Leigh Hunt - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Percy Bysshe Shelley - John Clare - John Keats - Hartley Coleridge - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -"
"William Strode - John Suckling - Jonathan Swift - Algernon Charles Swinburne - Alfred Tennyson - Chidiock Tichborne - Dylan Thomas - Francis Thompson - James Thomson (""The Seasons"") - James Thomson ('B.V.') - Aurelian Townsend - Thomas Traherne - Walter James Turner - Henry Vaughan - Edmund Waller - Isaac Watts - John Webster - Charles Wesley - Robert Wever - Oscar Wilde - John Wilmot - George Wither - Charles Wolfe - William Wordsworth - Henry Wotton - Thomas Wyatt - W. B. Yeats The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950 The New Oxford Book of English"
"people. 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,"
"time of Corneille, they have very generally received by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet, than pleasure to the auditor."" ""Perhaps it would not be easy to find any author, except Homer, who invented so much as Shakespeare, who so much advanced the studies which he cultivated, or effused so much novelty upon his age or country. The form, the characters, the language, and the shows of the English drama are his."" ""The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the"
"Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"". Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War, including the well known ""Lichtenberg"", which is about a combatant's death in a foreign land. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and others wrote also poems relating to the Boer War. Hardy's poems include ""Drummer Hodge"",and ""The Man He Killed"". '""Swinburne regularly donated work to the papers to rouse the spirit, from 'Transvaal', with the infamous closing line, 'Strike, England, and strike home', to 'The Turning of the Tide'."" The major novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) wrote a number"
"the poet is not. Jane Austen and ""Northanger Abbey"" - mentioned in a reference to Gothic fiction. Arthur Brooke's ""Romeus and Juliet"" - the poet's 1562 work that helped inspire Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" – this work is quoted from and is made part of the plot of the novel. The line 'For lo, an hugy heap of divers thoughts arise’ is quoted and Bryony then jokily uses the phrase 'hugy heap'. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - mentioned by Ashley Court's American tenants (see Genre section above). Touch Not the Cat Touch Not the Cat is a novel by Mary Stewart;"
"works based on ""Hamlet"" include: Contemporary popular music mentions include: The play has contributed many phrases to common English vernacular, including the famous ""To be, or not to be"". Hamlet in popular culture Numerous references to ""Hamlet"" in popular culture (in film, literature, arts, etc.) reflect the continued influence of this play. ""Hamlet"" is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare since 1879. The following list of plays including references to ""Hamlet"" is ordered alphabetically. The following list is ordered alphabetically. Sitcoms alluding to ""Hamlet"" include ""Gilligan's Island"", ""Happy Days"", ""Skins"", ""Mystery"
"bated breath"" (""Merchant of Venice"") and ""a foregone conclusion"" (""Othello"") have found their way into everyday English speech. Shakespeare was not revered in his lifetime, but he received a large amount of praise. In 1598, the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as ""the most excellent"" in both comedy and tragedy. The authors of the ""Parnassus"" plays at St John's College, Cambridge numbered him with Chaucer, Gower, and Spenser. In the First Folio, Ben Jonson called Shakespeare the ""Soul of the age, the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage"", though he"
"on in England, and their sole zealous proponent Thomas Rymer was hardly ever mentioned by influential writers except as an example of narrow dogmatism. Dryden, for example, argued in his influential ""Essay of Dramatick Poesie"" (1668) – the same essay in which he noted that Shakespeare's plays were performed only half as often as those of Beaumont and Fletcher – for Shakespeare's artistic superiority. Though Shakespeare does not follow the dramatic conventions, Dryden wrote, Ben Jonson does, and as a result Jonson lands in a distant second place to ""the incomparable Shakespeare"", the follower of nature, the untaught genius, the"
"on the chronology of history. In Letter 18, Voltaire talks about British tragedy, specifically in the hands of William Shakespeare. Voltaire presents his readers with the famous ""To be, or not to be"" soliloquy in ""Hamlet"" along with a translation into French rhyming verse. He also cites a passage from John Dryden and gives a translation. In Letter 19, Voltaire addresses British comedy, citing William Wycherley, John Vanbrugh, and William Congreve. Letter 20 speaks briefly of the ""belles lettres"" of the nobility, including the Earl of Rochester and Edmund Waller. Letter 22 references the poetry of Jonathan Swift and Alexander"
"the 1590s, used by Shakespeare in the pairing with 'flatterer', the latter term being one of very high frequency in the political literature of the period. The Q1609 text reads: 'You are so strongly in my purpose bred, / That all the world besides me thinkes y'are dead'. Malone's emendation, to read 'they are dead', is adopted by Kerrigan 'they're dead' (Penguin text, 1986); Ingram and Redpath read 'they are dead', with an elision marked between 'they' and 'are'; K Duncan Jones in the Arden edition (1997) reads 'me thinks you're dead', and Colin Burrow (New Oxford, 2002), 'me thinks"
"of an English Opium-Eater"" (1821), Essayist William Hazlitt (1778–1830), friend of both Coleridge and Wordsworth, is best known today for his literary criticism, especially ""Characters of Shakespeare's Plays"" (1817–18). The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821). Byron, however, was still influenced by 18th-century satirists and was, perhaps the least 'romantic' of the three, preferring ""the brilliant wit of Pope to what he called the 'wrong poetical system' of his Romantic contemporaries"". Byron achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe and Goethe called Byron ""undoubtedly the greatest genius of our"
"Reputation of William Shakespeare In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was rated as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but since the late 17th century he has been considered the supreme playwright and poet of the English language. No other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the world stage as Shakespeare. The plays have often been drastically adapted in performance. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the era of the great acting stars, to be a star on the British stage was synonymous with being a great Shakespearean actor. Then the emphasis was placed"
"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:"
"has been deeply influential in the field of literary criticism. This influence can be seen in such critics as A. O. Lovejoy and I. A. Richards. Coleridge is probably best known for his long poems, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Christabel"". Even those who have never read the ""Rime"" have come under its influence: its words have given the English language the metaphor of an albatross around one's neck, the quotation of ""water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink"" (almost always rendered as ""but not a drop to drink""), and the phrase ""a sadder and a wiser"
"of western culture. The narcissus or daffodil is the most loved of all English plants, and appears frequently in English literature. Many English writers have referred to the cultural and symbolic importance of ""Narcissus"", for instance Elizabeth Kent (""Flora Domestica"", 1823), FW Burbidge (""The Narcissus"", 1875), Peter Barr (""Ye Narcissus Or Daffodyl Flowere"", 1884), and Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (""The Plant-lore & Garden-craft of Shakespeare"", 1884). No flower has received more poetic description except the rose and the lily, with poems by authors including John Gower, Spenser, Constable, Shakespeare, Addison and Thomson, together with Milton (see Roman culture, above), Wordsworth, Shelley"
"in character. Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing ""Rhys Lewis"" in 1885. The best-known of the Anglo-Welsh poets are both Thomases. Dylan Thomas became famous on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-20th century. He is remembered for his poetry—his ""Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light"" is one of the most quoted couplets of English language verse—and for his ""play for voices"", ""Under Milk Wood"". The influential Church in Wales ""poet-priest"" and Welsh nationalist R. S. Thomas was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature"
"of genius have in general received only from posterity! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! That kind of fame which is commonly the most transient is, in his case, the most durable. The reputation of those writings, which he probably expected to be immortal, is every day fading; while those peculiarities of manner and that careless table-talk the memory of which, he probably thought, would die with him, are likely to be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe..."" Thomas Carlyle wrote two"
"riots of 1765, when an entire theatre was torn apart while British actors were performing on stage. British actors touring around America had found themselves the focus of often violent anti-British anger, because of their prominence and the lack of other visiting targets. The fact that both Forrest and Macready were specialists in Shakespeare can be ascribed to the reputation of Shakespeare in the 19th century as the icon of Anglo-Saxon culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for instance, wrote in his journal that beings on other planets probably called the Earth ""Shakespeare."" Shakespeare's plays were not just the favorites of the"
"the: In English, the most famous and most successful tragedies are those of William Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries. Shakespeare's tragedies include: A contemporary of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, also wrote examples of tragedy in English, notably: John Webster (1580?–1635?), also wrote famous plays of the genre: Contemporary with Shakespeare, an entirely different approach to facilitating the rebirth of tragedy was taken in Italy. Jacopo Peri, in the preface to his ""Euridice"" refers to ""the ancient Greeks and Romans (who in the opinion of many sang their staged tragedies throughout in representing them on stage)."" The attempts of Peri and his"
"Reading Without Readings"" Harold Bloom, 1994: ""...Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature."" ""The Western Canon"" Timeline of Shakespeare criticism This article is a collection of critical quotations and other criticism against William Shakespeare and his works. Shakespeare enjoyed recognition in his own time, but in the 17th century, poets and authors began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language. In fact, even today, no other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British (and later the world) stage as Shakespeare Since"
"Kunzru, Simon Schama, William Trevor, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Helen Dunmore, J.K. Galbraith, Gervase Phinn, W.G. Sebald, Redmond O'Hanlon, Ali Smith, Sigmund Freud, Simon Armitage, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Niall Ferguson, Muriel Spark, Steven Pinker, Tony Harrison, John Updike, Will Self, H.G. Wells, Noam Chomsky, Jamie Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, John Mortimer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger McGough, Ian Kershaw, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steven Runciman, Sue Townsend, Primo Levi, Alistair Cooke, William Boyd, Robert Graves, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, David Lodge, Anton Chekhov, Claire Tomalin, David Cannadine, P.G. Wodehouse, Franz Kafka, Dave Eggers, Evelyn Waugh, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe,"
"fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells"
"Barnes – Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – H. W. Longfellow – Edward Fitzgerald – Edgar Allan Poe – Alfred Tennyson – Robert Browning – Aubrey de Vere – Emily Brontë – A. H. Clough – Charles Kingsley – Herman Melville – Walt Whitman – Jean Ingelow – Matthew Arnold – William Cory – Coventry Patmore – William Allingham – Sydney Dobell – George Meredith – D. G. Rossetti – Emily Dickinson – Christina Rossetti – Richard Watson Dixon – William Morris – Warren de Tabley – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Thomas Hardy –"
"advocates, including Sigmund Freud, and since the publication of Charlton Ogburn's ""The Mysterious William Shakespeare: the Myth and the Reality"" in 1984, the Oxfordian theory, boosted in part by the advocacy of several Supreme Court justices, and high-profile theatre professionals, has become the most popular alternative authorship theory. The overwhelming majority of mainstream Shakespeare scholars agree that Shakespeare's authorship was not questioned during his lifetime or for two centuries afterward. Jonathan Bate writes, ""No one in Shakespeare's lifetime or the first two hundred years after his death expressed the slightest doubt about his authorship."" Proponents of alternative authors, however, claim"