"all three use ""thou"") and (2) there is no mention of the supposed ""fault"" committed by the addressee towards the poet (as in sonnets 34 and 35) nor of the supposed ""guilt"" borne by the poet which may affect the addressee's reputation (as in sonnet 36). Hamnet Shakespeare Hamnet Shakespeare (baptised 2 February 1585 – buried 11 August 1596) was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. He died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between Hamnet and his father's later play ""Hamlet"", as well"
"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),"
"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,"
"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,"
"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:"
"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"")"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"case in which Shakespeare sues Shaw following a lecture Shaw had given earlier in the year in which he had said that Shakespeare was a ""narrow minded middle class man"" with ""no religion, no politics, no great concerns"". Shaw often participated in these skits, by lending costumes, or even writing dialogue for one entitled ""His Wild Oat"" (1926). The ghosts of Shakespeare and Shaw also appear in ""Back to G.B.S.; or A Midsummer Nightmare"" (1932), a fantasia set in the year 2156, when the two playwrights have become confused with each other. Another, ""Bernard Shaw Arrives: A Fantasy in One"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Celimene, and Sophie are not mentioned in the play, and they have no lines in the film. This, however, is a standard feature of Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations; his ""Hamlet"" contains many non-speaking walk-on roles that are not included in the original play, but are mentioned in the cast list. Branagh became interested in the play during his 1984 season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, when he had played the King of Navarre. From that period, he was familiar with Harley Granville-Barker's famous essay arguing that ""Love's Labour's Lost"" could be treated as highly stylised, with the dialogue and action treated"
"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"
"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),"
"title for an extant play. Historically, a reference to ""Love's Labour's Won"" (in Francis Meres's ""Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury"", 1598) predates the construction of the Globe Theatre (1599). The Doctor and Martha make numerous references to Shakespeare's appearance: she notes that he looks nothing like his portrait, and wonders why he is not bald, while the Doctor says he could make his head bald if he rubs it and later gives him a ruff to keep (calling it ""a neck brace""). Shakespeare himself speaks with a noticeable Midlands accent, a reference to his birth and upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon. The episode"
"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"
"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, though not unsparingly, indulged"". The Cardinal's line in Act II, scene II, was more fully: The play opened at London's Covent Garden Theatre on 7 March 1839 with William Charles Macready in the lead role. Macready believed its opening night success was ""unequivocal""; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March. In 1870, literary critic Edward Sherman Gould wrote that Bulwer ""had the good fortune to do, what few men can hope to do: he wrote a line that is likely to live for ages"". By 1888 another author, Charles Sharp, feared that repeating the phrase ""might sound trite"
"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"
"and ""Hercules Oetaeus"" of Seneca, plus the ""Moralia"" of Plutarch, the ""Aeneid"" and ""Georgics"" of Virgil, and the ""Adagia"" of Erasmus. The characters in the play quote or refer to the ""Iliad"" and to works by Empedocles, Themistocles, and Camillus. As the play opens, the aristocratic but impoverished Bussy, an unemployed soldier and an accomplished swordsman, is reflecting on the corrupt, avaricious, and violent society in which he lives. In the third line of his opening soliloquy, he expresses the radical view that ""Who is not poor, is monstrous."" Yet by the end of the scene Bussy has pocketed a"
"The earliest certain performance occurred on 1633, when Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria watched it on the Queen's birthday. Colley Cibber produced the most successful of the Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare with his version of ""Richard III"", at Drury Lane starting in 1700. Cibber himself played the role till 1739, and his version was on stage for the next century and a half. It contained the lines ""Off with his head; so much for Buckingham"" – possibly the most famous Shakespearean line that Shakespeare did not write – and ""Richard's himself again!"". The original Shakespearean version returned in a"
"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"
"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"
"Lear"", which entirely omitted the Fool, and ended happily in marriage between Cordelia and Edgar. (Though Joseph Addison protested at this mutilation of Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson defended the poetic justice of Tate's adaptation.)""Coriolanus"" became ""The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth"", played at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1682. Tate's farce ""Duke and no Duke"" (first printed 1685, but acted earlier at the Theatre Royal) imitated Sir Aston Cockayne's ""Trappolin suppos'd a Prince"". His ""Cuckold's Haven"" (performed 1685 at the Theatre Royal) was derived from Chapman and Marston's ""Eastward Ho"". ""The Island Princess, or the Generous Portugals"" (1687) was adapted from"
"arts: Shakespeare also alludes to the story in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", both when Benedick states that Leander was ""never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love"" and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage; and in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in the form of a malapropism accidentally using the names Helen and Limander in the place of Hero and Leander, as well as in Edward III (Act II, Scene II), Othello (Act III, Scene III), and Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene IV)."
"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"
"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"