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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 (1564-1616)- 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
- In the play As You Like It Shakespeare wrote "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- It was Shakespeare who coined the expression, "All that glitters is not gold."
- We enjoy Shakespeare in the Park programs during the summer.
- The complete works of Shakespeare use about 20,000 different words.
- Shakespeare's plays are frequently performed — sometimes modernized through setting without altering the text.
- In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- Shakespeare's birthplace.Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
- The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain.Louis Sachar -- Holes
- The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down
- It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves."John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- Her long hair was streaked with gray, tangled and matted, and her eyes had sunk deep into their sockets, but still she reminded me of the mom she'd been when I was a kid, swan-diving off cliffs and painting in the desert and reading Shakespeare aloud.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- 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.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- See, Shakespeare isn't so bad.Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger
- Shakespeare talks about how the rose has perfume that makes it beautiful on the inside.Alex Flinn -- Beastly
- If I had a whole book of Shakespeare they could keep me in the hospital for a year.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- He called me Shakespeare.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded, I thought, turning again to the bookcase, it was Shakespeare's mind.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = English dramatist and poet frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language
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
William Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language
Shakespeare = writer of plays and poetry frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616)
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = Writer of plays and poetry frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616)
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Shakespeare = English poet and dramatist frequently cited as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616)
Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
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