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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of unc…
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2026· 51 entries
Culture Sauce: ‘Becoming Hamlet’ invites you to be (or not to be) the Bard’s hero but more than time is out of joint (Off Broadway review)
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lacapital.com.ar: Llega "Romeo y Ofelia", la película que lleva a Shakespeare a una Rosario de barras y poder
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Curry Pilot: Threepenny Theater Co. presents: 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Romeo, Juliet, Playwright
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Poet, Playwright, Dramatist
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Watch the Weird Sisters conspire in the opening scene of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare's Drama Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet, Act II, Scene II
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ScreenRant: William Shakespeare Meets Cormac McCarthy In HBO’s 10-Part Dystopian Masterpiece
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Popverse: Shakespeare is not as good as Mobland, says Helen Mirren
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Cadena Láser: Shakespeare resucita en el Cementerio Británico: una caminata teatral entre tumbas y personajes
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Mid-Day: When Shakespeare visits the BMC shaala in Mumbai - Mid-Day
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Herald.co.zw: WHY MUNYA IS JUMPING SHIP AND MOVING FROM SOCIALS TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Variety: Andrew Scott Has Waited His Whole Career for a Role Like ‘Elsinore.’ Can Focus and the Bard Anoint Him With an Oscar?
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jereznews.com: Jerez honra a Shakespeare como embajador de sus vinos en un acto en el Parque González Hontoria
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cadiznoticias.es: Jerez celebra su tradicional homenaje a William Shakespeare por sus referencias al vino de Jerez
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La Voz del Sur: ¿Cuál es la relación de Shakespeare con Jerez? La ciudad vuelve a homenajear a uno de los grandes escritores del planeta
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QueVer: Un clásico de William Shakespeare con lo mejor del anime en la película que te espera en el streaming
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ecodiario.mx: Bibliósfera | William Shakespeare ¿Fue William Shakespeare?
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“The gravestone is crumbling to some extent and we want to consolidate that, and do some improvements around the grave so it lasts longer.”
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“What she’s saying is groundbreaking.”
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“Shakespeare was larger than Plato and than St. Augustine. He encloses us because we see with his fundamental perceptions.”
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“s Complaint. Critics consider that its fine qualities are marred by leaden effects. The Phoenix and the Turtle, printed in Robert Chester”
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“We may, therefore, borrow a convenient phrase from the theatre of today and class them together as Shakespeare”
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“s Tale and The Tempest, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare”
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Tipperary Live: Carrick-on-Suir hosts festival celebrating Shakespeare this weekend
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Mshale: William Shakespeare Sonnet 5 Hms Dragon (nsIz0A0O0G)
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Whats The Show: William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs
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Napolike.com: Shakespeare in Love tonight on TwentySeven: plot and cast
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Napolike.com: Shakespeare enamorado esta noche en TwentySeven: argumento y reparto.
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Mshale: William Shakespeare - THE SONNETS - SONNET 5 Naomi Osaka (Jz8GRmqeYV)
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London Daily News: London poet writes 3,400 Shakespearean-style sonnets more than 400 years after the bard
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Infobae: De la leyenda a los hechos: los mitos sobre Shakespeare que la historia no logra confirmar
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102.9 The Buzz: Who Was William Shakespeare’s Wife?
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: How William Shakespeare Used Audition Sides
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Playwright, Poet, Julius Caesar
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Learn about William Shakespeare's early boyhood and path to London to become a playwright and actor
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Act II, scene 2 of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Examine the First Folio Edition of William Shakespeare's Plays and Consider Its Allure for Collectors and Scholars
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Hear director Joseph Haj exploring the spiritual side of William Shakespeare's pirate-packed Pericles
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: The four states of the Martin Droeshout engraved portrait of William Shakespeare
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Poetry, Plays, Sonnets
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Sources, Plays, Poems
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Know about the first critical edition of the works of William Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe, published in 1709
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Feminist Criticism, Gender Studies
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Poetry, Sonnets, Plays
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare Explained in Five Questions
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: William Shakespeare - Romances, Poetry, Plays
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2024· 1 entry
Lead Stories rated the claim “Amelia Bassano Lanier is the lady who wrote all of Shakespeare's plays Because she was black they would not publish her work.” Published Poet.
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2023· 1 entry
FactCheck.org rated the claim ““Florida high schools are now removing Shakespeare, including the full text of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ to comply with Republicans’ new law restricting ‘sexual content.'”” Distorts the Facts.
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2022· 1 entry
FACTLY rated the claim “William Shakespeare’s quotation about expectations and life advice” FALSE.
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2021· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard revealed in a Facebook Live video and statements to the press that he impregnated a girl when she was 14 and he was 18 years of age, and he compared it to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz messed up when he attributed the famous phrase "full of sound and fury / signifying nothing" to William Shakespeare.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz messed up when he attributed the famous phrase "full of sound and fury / signifying nothing" to William Shakespeare.” False.
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“Nothing shall be impossible to Humans”
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2019· 5 entries
Africa Check rated the claim “William Shakespeare said “I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy. And keep smiling. Just live for yourself and before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. B…” Incorrect.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “"Shakespeare said: ‘I always feel happy. You know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. & Keep smiling.'"” Pants on Fire.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Shakespeare said: ‘I always feel happy. You know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. & Keep smiling.'”” Pants on Fire.
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Called him "the world's greatest playwright"; while Dennis Kennedy, Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Theatre (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, noted in 2004 that he remains "the most performed playwright in the
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“Citation choisie pour le 7 novembre 2019.”
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2018· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “William Shakespeare wrote that he "always felt happy" because he didn't "expect anything from anyone."” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “William Shakespeare wrote that he "always felt happy" because he didn't "expect anything from anyone."” False.
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2017· 1 entry
Wrote; "most of the most important, the most talented, and best educated writers and readers of the last four centuries have considered Shakespeare the best writer in English, or the best modern writer in any language, o
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2015· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A black woman named Amelia Bassano has been proved the true (uncredited) author of all of William Shakespeare's plays.” False.
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2009· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 26 février 2009.”
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1990· 1 entry
“[William Shakespeare, Come vi piace, traduzione di Antonio Calenda e Antonio Nediani, Newton Compton, 1990]”
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1975· 2 entries
“Mein Mund soll meines Herzens Bosheit sagen, // Sonst wird mein Herz, verschweig' ich sie, zerspringen: // Und ehe das geschehe, will ich frei // Und über alles Maß die Zunge brauchen." - Vierter Aufzug, Dritte Szene/Katharina, William Shakespeare: Sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden. Band 1, Berlin: Aufbau, 1975, S. 124-130.”
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“Der Wind, der durch die Welt die Jugend treibt, // Sich Glück wo anders, als daheim, zu suchen, // Wo uns Erfahrung spärlich reift." - Erster Aufzug, Zweite Szene/Petruchio. William Shakespeare: Sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden. Band 1, Berlin: Aufbau, 1975, S. 81-90.”
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1934· 2 entries
Rudyard Kipling published a short story in The Strand Magazine, "Proofs of Holy Writ", postulating that Shakespeare had helped to polish the prose of the King James Bible, published in 1611
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In 1934, Rudyard Kipling published a short story in The Strand Magazine, "Proofs of Holy Writ", postulating that Shakespeare had helped to polish the prose of the King James Bible, published in 1611.
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1916· 1 entry
“Opis: oryginał polskiego artykułu, który się w przekładzie angielskim ukazał w Księdze zbiorowej, wydanej w Anglii (1916) ku uczczeniu Szekspira w trzechsetną rocznicę jego śmierci.”
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1841· 1 entry
“On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”
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1840· 1 entry
"does not he shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying signs; indestructible"
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1835· 1 entry
“Othello, the Moor of Venice" in "The dramatic works of William Shakspeare: with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected; together with a copious glossary, Volume 4" - Página 590, William Shakespeare - J.B. Lippincott & co., 1835”
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1818· 1 entry
“Lines Written among the Euganean Hills,”
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1616· 35 entries
Died 1616-04-23.
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“My only love sprung from my only hate! (ang.)”
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. (ang.)”
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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“Opis: stąd wzięło się popularne powiedzenie: Nie wszystko złoto, co się świeci.”
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“A Daniel come to judgement! (ang.)”
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“Senna jesteś, to zbawienna ospałość, Poddaj się jej – wiem ci dobrze, że oprzeć się nie możesz.”
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“Z niczego może być tylko nic.”
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“So we’ll live,And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laughAt gilded butterflies, and hear poor roguesTalk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too, —Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out. (ang.)”
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“Przecież i osioł pozna się na tem, kiedy wóz ciągnie konia.”
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“Prawda jest to pies, którego korbaczem wyganiają do budy; gdy tymczasem jaśnie wielmożnej bonońskiej suczce wolno przy kominie leżeć i cuchnąć.”
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“Not being the worstStands in some rank of praise. (ang.)”
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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“Opis: książę Albanii do Goneryli.”
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“Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. (ang.)”
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“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
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“All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrancesAnd one man in his time plays many parts. (ang.)”
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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (ang.)”
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“Wyspa ta jest pełna dźwięków,Głosów i słodkich pieśni, które cieszą,Nie szkodząc wcale. Czasem strun tysiącaBrzęk słyszę wokół siebie; czasem głosy,Które, choć ze snu bym powstał długiego,Ukołysałyby mnie znów.”
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (ang.)”
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“Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon. (ang.)”
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“Od chwili tej do końca świata… w pamięci ludzkiej będziemy żyć:my wybrańców garść,… kompania braci”
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“O sono é o prenúncio da morte.”
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“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. (ang.)”
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“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! (ang.)”
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“Jak się kobieta uprze, to diabła przegada.”
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“Be to yourself as you would to your friend. (ang.)”
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“A wniosek taki: nie zagrodzisz niczymBrzucha kobiety. Wiedz o tym,że wpuści On i wypuści wszystkich nieprzyjaciół,Wraz z taborami i w pełnym rynsztunku.”
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“Speak low if you speak love. (ang.)”
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“Znużony – odejść pragnę; lecz chęć w sobie dławię:Jeśli umrę, sam na sam z światem cię zostawię.”
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“Niech najpiękniejsze stworzenia się mnożą,By śmierć nie mogła ściąć róży urody.”
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“Nie w gwiazdach pragnę słuszność sądów badać,choć astrologię znam.”
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“Lecz dla mnie były te plony dojrzałeGorzkim owocem mego smutku tylko,Bo czym bez Ciebie jest lato wspaniałe? Gdy Ciebie nie ma, nawet ptaki milknąLub taki smutek rozbrzmiewa w ich śpiewie, Że, drżąc przed zimą, liść blednie na drzewie.”
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“Którzy kochają, płacić muszą drogo…”
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“Gdy w kręgu myśli słodkich, uciszonych,Sprawy minione wspominać próbuję,Wzdycham za stratą rzeczy upragnionychI utracony czas znów opłakuję.”
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1564· 1 entry
Born 1564-04.
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