lit a candle 9d agoWilliam put words to things I'd never been able to say.
Their story
William Shakespeare wrote around 39 plays and 154 sonnets, from Hamlet and King Lear to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and gave the English language more phrases than any other writer. His birth date is traditionally given as 23 April.
In their own words
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
Photos
5Title page of the First Folio, by William Shakespeare, with copper engraving of the author by Martin Droeshout. Image courtesy of the Elizabethan Club and the B
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Title page with woodcut of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, 1634. Image courtesy of the Elizabethan Club and Beinecke Rare Boo
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illustration of William Shakespeare reciting his play Hamlet to his family. His wife, Anne Hathaway, is sitting in the chair on the right; his son Hamnet is beh
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Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. From William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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I feel exactly the same way.
Beautifully said.