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  • How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?   (source)
    Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
  • If I had a whole book of Shakespeare they could keep me in the hospital for a year.   (source)
  • See, Shakespeare isn't so bad.   (source)
    Shakespeare = Writer of plays and poetry frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616)
  • I hoped, in fact, that by some wildcard of luck they'd transfer me over from Mr. Shattler's class, where all we did was read magazines and play bingo games, to hers, where students read detective books and stuff by that Shakespeare guy.   (source)
    Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
  • (also enjoying himself) Mr. William Shakespeare.   (source)
  • The greatest writers, like Chaucer, or Shakespeare.   (source)
  • Shakespeare talks about how the rose has perfume that makes it beautiful on the inside.   (source)
  • The William Shakespeare -- the guy who wrote the plays?   (source)
  • She would go and pull out different stories by Mr. Shakespeare and read the titles.   (source)
    Shakespeare = writer of plays and poetry frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616)
  • She gave us lectures on women's suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went.   (source)
    Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
  • In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else.   (source)
    Shakespeare = English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
  • He called me Shakespeare.   (source)
    Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
  • Before they went to bed, Francie and Neeley had to read a page of the Bible and a page from Shakespeare.   (source)
  • But, with all my love for Shakespeare, it is often weary work to read all the meanings into his lines which critics and commentators have given them.   (source)
  • Phillips swore old Shaw had cut out the "Tempest" from Shakespeare before he let Nolan have it, because he said "the Bermudas ought to be ours,"   (source)
  • The course was on Shakespeare, and I'd chosen it because I'd heard of Shakespeare and thought that was a good sign.†   (source)
  • However, unlike Shakespeare's play their story doesn't end in tragedy.†   (source)
  • —Shakespeare, Hamlet†   (source)
  • Louie and the other slaves shoveled and walked in time with Shakespeare's soliloquies, with Churchill's vow to fight in the fields and in the streets and in the hills, with Lincoln's last full measure of devotion.†   (source)
  • "Shakespeare," Turtle replied.†   (source)
  • The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Beginning with the Bible, the citations proceeded right through the works of the Greeks and Romans onto the likes of Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe.†   (source)
  • How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child.
    William Shakespeare†   (source)
  • "It's from Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Along with Mozart, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Gershwin, Houdini, and Disney.†   (source)
  • Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions.†   (source)
  • "Around the time of your weasel lady," Klaus said, flipping through the enormous book he had been reading, "a group of actors put on a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and none of them wore any clothing."†   (source)
  • As he'd passed by them, Rasheed had playfully said, "If it isn't Laili and Majnoon," referring to the star-crossed lovers of Nezami's popular twelfth-century romantic poem-a Farsi version of Romeo and Juliet, Babi said, though he added that Nezami had written his tale of ill-fated lovers four centuries before Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • For example, one week the Shakespeare's Globe poster had fallen down in the classroom at school and you could tell because it had been put back slightly to the right and there were three little circles of Blu-Tack stain on the wall down the left-hand side of the poster.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • It was like something out of Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • King Minos, Thomas Jefferson, Shakespeare-people like that.†   (source)
  • When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community.†   (source)
  • Then we made Owen Meany stand in the dark inside the secret passageway, while Mr. Fish recited, too loudly, the passage that Owen had always admired from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • Gut-shot, doped up, discussing Shakespeare with the commandant of one of the most efficient death camps in the history of the world.†   (source)
  • Do you think Shakespeare was just showing off ?†   (source)
  • Well, Shakespeare and stuff.†   (source)
  • George had no idea that Shakespeare was not usually taught in third grade.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dewitt likes to modulate her reading list, and she does a big push right before Christmas with Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Wonderful ones by Dryden and Shakespeare and Otway.†   (source)
  • "My Shakespeare class is the best I've ever taken," she's written in violet-colored ink.†   (source)
  • He found a girl who knew the alphabet at nineteen months, and another who was reading Dickens and Shakespeare by the time she was four.†   (source)
  • SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY, Kilometer Zero Paris.†   (source)
  • If Shakespeare wanted you to believe they were in love, he wouldn't tell you in almost the very first scene that Romeo was hung up on Rosaline….†   (source)
  • Thomas, Whitman, Eliot, Shakespeare, and King David of the Psalms.†   (source)
  • And Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I have this very, very difficult thing to write about Sonnet 94 by Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Jack Torrance, the Eugene O'Neill of his generation, the American Shakespeare!†   (source)
  • A giant rubber plant stood just inside the front hallway next to tall mahogany bookcases that held the cherished volumes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Emily Dickinson, and of James Welden Johnson and Langston Hughes that Grandma and Mother loved so much.†   (source)
  • If my sister Rachel and Mr. William Shakespeare put their heads together to invent an extravagant despot, they couldn't outdo Mobutu.†   (source)
  • He liked watching the weather; he hated the tinned baked beans but ate them because they were nutritious and portable; he enjoyed Shakespeare; he loved his granddaughter.†   (source)
  • "Shakespeare?" said Father Hoyt.†   (source)
  • It was fairly basic: Bronte, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Faulkner.†   (source)
  • Rehearse the African children in parts of Shakespeare's plays?†   (source)
  • In the wider world Michael was lost, and would remain lost no matter how much Shakespeare they made him read.†   (source)
  • They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • All were involved with some version of The Taming of the Shrew, by that former glover's apprentice from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • He looked over his notes again and again—the first English dictionary, the growth of the English language, William Shakespeare, words from French and German, new words, old words, new inventions, Anglo-Saxon words, Latin and Greek roots, American English—it all became a big jumble in his mind.†   (source)
  • Or Betsie would announce "an evening of Vondel" (the Dutch Shakespeare), with each of us reading a part.†   (source)
  • -William Shakespeare, The Tempest It was almost midnight by the time Elinor finally saw her garden gate beside the road.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare's The Tempest?†   (source)
  • We did Shakespeare in school last term .†   (source)
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar .†   (source)
  • He shrugged his shoulders, took a small Oxford edition of Shakespeare out of his pocket, moved over to one side of us and began to read.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to be a three-page paper showing how something that happened in one of Shakespeare's plays also happened in our own community.†   (source)
  • "—and then there's Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • You can imagine him surrounded at a party, reciting Shakespeare and breaking down the interplay between violin and cello in The Swan.†   (source)
  • Laura said he was maybe "rehearsing his Shakespeare."†   (source)
  • Mr. Crow was a man of uncertain temper with a high, severe forehead like Shakespeare's.†   (source)
  • Did Shakespeare live in the Baroque period?†   (source)
  • My plan was that I needed the time to take a course in Shakespeare, since I was, after all, an English major.†   (source)
  • During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • There were times inside the bus when the Warden would dance around and sing, times when he'd read them Shakespeare plays and books such as Aesop's Fables.†   (source)
  • Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth.†   (source)
  • I think this story will make Shakespeare's tragedies read like light family entertainment."†   (source)
  • "I know I'm putting you in an awkward position, but since I helped you with that Shakespeare paper last semester …."†   (source)
  • She was only in her late twenties-you could actually look at her while she was prattling on about grammar and Shakespeare and imagine not so long ago, when she might have been slouched in a seat like any ordinary kid and wondering why the clock never seemed to move.†   (source)
  • -SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet LXV†   (source)
  • I thought of the line from Shakespeare: "Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter."†   (source)
  • It's the complete works of Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Chase Wagner and Bill Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare, Julius Caesar†   (source)
  • I don't know much about the play, except that it's one of Shakespeare's tragedies, but Erik's performance was amazing.†   (source)
  • We'd been put into groups to do an assignment on Macbeth, me and Jason and a girl named Amy Richmond who, after we pulled our desks together, promptly announced she was "no good at this Shakespeare crap" and put her head down on her backpack.†   (source)
  • There were three TV rooms without chairs, and one little rolling bookshelf filled with a bizarre assortment of volumes—Christian books, ancient copies of John D. MacDonald, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a handful of romances, and two Dorothy L. Sayers novels.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I read the Shakespeare poem slow and out loud with feeling because that is the way it sounds best.†   (source)
  • She was teaching classics to adults in continuing education classes and pursuing her interest in Shakespeare and theater.†   (source)
  • Our English class was taking a trip to Ashland, Oregon, for the Shakespeare Festival, and that was my light at the end of the tunnel.†   (source)
  • I read Shakespeare's play over and over and watched as many Romeo and Juliet movies as I could get my hands on.†   (source)
  • He also tried to supplement his learning by researching cell biology and Shakespeare online.†   (source)
  • The hollows swallow up people, and even history: Some of the speech patterns you hear today in those high little outposts are preserved from Daniel Boone's time, and those patterns in turn were transported across the Atlantic from the England of Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • By then, Borges was completely blind and had no reason to visit the bookshop--because he could no longer read, and because over the course of his life he'd read so much, memorized such vast portions of Cervantes, Goethe, and Shakespeare, that all he had to do was sit in the darkness and reflect.†   (source)
  • A Shakespeare scholar, even.†   (source)
  • He was Bill Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • What is that, Shakespeare?†   (source)
  • He quickly grabs what he needs for Spanish, Calculus, Richard Wright, and now History of Education, as he runs-past Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, Kant, Faulkner, Shakespeare, the whole Western Canon-for the cashier, feeling like he'll escape intact.†   (source)
  • What really made us friends was her love of Shakespeare, but where I read it, she acted it.†   (source)
  • "I saw a Shakespeare movie on TV once," I said.†   (source)
  • On the other wall there was a mural showing Homer, Dante, Tolstoi, Balzac, and Shakespeare engaged in conversation.†   (source)
  • I think it was Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • He talked so fast and hard that the words formed pictures in front of her eyes, and what she saw was the Agincourt speech from Henry V, or at least what it might have been like if Shakespeare had been small and dark and worn a little loincloth instead of trousers, or tights in Shakespeare's case.†   (source)
  • Boston having no theater, Faneuil Hall, sacred to Boston patriots as "the cradle of liberty," was converted on General Howe's wish into a "very elegant playhouse" for amateur productions of Shakespeare and original farces, with officers and favored Loyalists taking parts.†   (source)
  • —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Violence is as American as cherry pie.†   (source)
  • There was Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare said it better.†   (source)
  • He had named it after my mother's favorite character from Shakespeare to please her, but he had insisted on the Sue.†   (source)
  • This stuff here—Shakespeare and all that.†   (source)
  • That wisdom, which seems to have been unavailable to Chaucer, or Dante, or Catullus, or Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Dickens, is still with us, and, in 1969 it placed an inordinate burden on African American writers.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare yet, Archie chuckled.†   (source)
  • It's Shakespeare!†   (source)
  • And if you asked, I'd say Shakespeare wrote culture art.†   (source)
  • The freedom and inventiveness of American usage reminds some linguists of how the English language was in Shakespeare's day.†   (source)
  • It's Shakespeare," said Miss Boon quietly.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, we just discovered that we have a cadet recruit Shakespeare in Romeo Company and I've invited him to give a poetry reading before we march to mess.†   (source)
  • I rather like Mr. Shakespeare's sonnets."†   (source)
  • And why of Shakespeare's cast of characters do I remain most curious about Edgar?†   (source)
  • He could make Shakespeare come alive, and he had incredible leadership talents that made me idolize him.†   (source)
  • My father, thinking that it might be good for business, urged me to show them how well I spoke English, to make a display of it, to casually recite "some Shakespeare words."†   (source)
  • She said that after she heard that, she couldn't take Shakespeare seriously."†   (source)
  • Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall —William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British poet and playwright Ican't believe this.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's fondness for all things Shakespeare is well known.†   (source)
  • Ummm …. what thinkest thou, oh, dear Shakespeare student, Self?†   (source)
  • He rode quoting Shakespeare from memory, thinking of the picket line ahead somewhere in the dark.†   (source)
  • Or about Shakespeare's plays, or riddles, or history, name it.†   (source)
  • I mean to a certain extent I think I was perfectly justified to point out that none of the really good boys—Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Shakespeare, for Chrissake—were such goddam word-squeezers.†   (source)
  • "Shakespeare's admonition that the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers."†   (source)
  • The first intelligible line is HAMLET'S, coming at the end of a short speech-see Shakespeare Act II, scene ii.†   (source)
  • Didn't Shakespeare say something about 'every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up'?†   (source)
  • Wharfinger was no Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • I heard him do his monologue of Shakespeare—The Ages of Man.†   (source)
  • In the past I had been in awe of her education, her year of college where she had read Shakespeare and learned Latin.†   (source)
  • I thought I'd mention what we do to people that write obscene books, and just mention some things you find written in the Bible, or in Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • It's Shakespeare and all those fellows.†   (source)
  • Tell me more about your husband-'One writ with me in sour misfortune's book,' as Shakespeare says.†   (source)
  • After all, if an infinite number of monkeys start playing with an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will write a play of Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • If it takes my snoring to make you remember Shakespeare instead of the dope sheet on the ponies, I hope I'll keep on with it.†   (source)
  • Now bedridden, scorning all medication and in particular tranquillizers, she had a seizure every morning before breakfast and often on Saturday night for some reason, but had retained her memory; she could amuse herself by giving out great wads of Shakespeare and "Arma virumque cano," or the like.†   (source)
  • If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded, I thought, turning again to the bookcase, it was Shakespeare's mind.   (source)
    Shakespeare = English poet and dramatist frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616)
  • "Do they read Shakespeare?" asked the Savage as they walked, on their way to the Bio-chemical Laboratories, past the School Library.   (source)
    Shakespeare = English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
  • I've read about them in Shakespeare.   (source)
    Shakespeare = works written by the English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
  • It's like that in Shakespeare too.   (source)
  • And a man called Shakespeare.   (source)
    Shakespeare = English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
  • Not even in Shakespeare.   (source)
    Shakespeare = works written by the English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
  • Shakespeare and the old men of the pueblo had never mentioned science, and from Linda he had only gathered the vaguest hints: science was something you made helicopters with, some thing that caused you to laugh at the Corn Dances, something that prevented you from being wrinkled and losing your teeth.   (source)
    Shakespeare = English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
  • He picked it up, looked at the title-page: the book was called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.   (source)
  • "Yeah, I believe that's Shakespeare," I said dismissively.†   (source)
  • It was as big as a folio Shakespeare play and as thick as a family Bible.†   (source)
  • I never liked Shakespeare, Scatty muttered.†   (source)
  • But it was Shakespeare who said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes."†   (source)
  • "I don't know, because Shakespeare is a really good writer?"†   (source)
  • Mrs. Purcell says, Do you like the Shakespeare, Frankie?†   (source)
  • This was how Jimmy first encountered Shakespeare — through Anna K.'s rendition of Macbeth.†   (source)
  • "Shakespeare," Turtle argued, "and make it ten dollars."†   (source)
  • In my copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Shakespeare takes up forty-seven pages.†   (source)
  • Why don't you belch Shakespeare at me, you fumbling snob?†   (source)
  • That quote was taken from Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest."†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai tried to kick-start Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY, KILOMETER ZERO PARIS.†   (source)
  • Worse than Shakespeare's Sonnet bloody 94.†   (source)
  • Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, "Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?"†   (source)
  • Shakespeare's work is full of passages about life as a theater.†   (source)
  • You are not an educated person unless you have read Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Now let's see what Shakespeare is talking about here.†   (source)
  • That Shakespeare should have gone on with the story.†   (source)
  • And so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch, and all the rest, and it was in The Romaunt of the Rose.†   (source)
  • I knew the word "winter" from Shakespeare's texts and I thought I should look up its meaning again.†   (source)
  • "I've seen every Shakespeare play put on by the Royal Shakespeare Company," Ray said.†   (source)
  • As Shakespeare puts it so well, 'Everybody plays his part, and mine is a sad one.'†   (source)
  • "And Shakespeare," Charles Wallace called out, "and Bach!†   (source)
  • "Today," she began, "we're going to continue talking about the writer named Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Whether Shakespeare's treatment of the female characters is misogynistic.†   (source)
  • All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • We did Shakespeare last year at my old school….†   (source)
  • Grandfather was sure Shakespeare must have visited Barbados.†   (source)
  • As you know, that's Shakespeare's sonnet 73, your constant bedside reading.†   (source)
  • "What was so cool about this Shakespeare dude, Miss Johnson?" a boy named Ritchie wanted to know.†   (source)
  • Next to Shakespeare I love Thoreau best.†   (source)
  • The book has the first bit of Shakespeare I ever read.†   (source)
  • I don't think Shakespeare meant for her to be a hero.†   (source)
  • The yellow-and-green sign reads SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY.†   (source)
  • How many of you have ever read a play by Shakespeare before?†   (source)
  • You must have heard Shakespeare's most famous line?†   (source)
  • I hoped we might find some time to talk about Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • As we all know by now, if Shakespeare said it, it must be true.†   (source)
  • "Well, for one thing, Shakespeare wore an earring," Miss Johnson offered.†   (source)
  • She says I'm always reciting the lines from Shakespeare and they make no sense either.†   (source)
  • That Shakespeare is that good he must have been an Irishman.†   (source)
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