As Shakespeare said, "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
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In the play As You Like ItShakespeare wrote "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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It was Shakespeare who coined the expression, "All that glitters is not gold."
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We enjoy Shakespeare in the Park programs during the summer.
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The complete works of Shakespeare use about 20,000 different words.
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Shakespeare's plays are frequently performed -- sometimes modernized through setting without altering the text.
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Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!)
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
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The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain.
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Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998
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The greatest writers, like Chaucer, or Shakespeare.
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David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, 1999
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(also enjoying himself) Mr. William Shakespeare.
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Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys, 1982
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Shakespeare's birthplace.
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Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994
Shakespeare = English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language and who wrote such works as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
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The William Shakespeare -- the guy who wrote the plays?
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Darren Shan, A Vampire's Assistant, 2001
William Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
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I was the only student who didn't groan and carry on when Mrs. Henry assigned us another Shakespeare play.
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Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002
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If my sister Rachel and Mr. William Shakespeare put their heads together to invent an extravagant despot, they couldn't outdo Mobutu.†
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Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998
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How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?
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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953
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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.†
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Andrew Clements, Frindle, 1996