All 21 Uses of
Shakespeare
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Before they went to bed, Francie and Neeley had to read a page of the Bible and a page from Shakespeare.
Chpt 6 *Shakespeare = author widely regarded as the greatest in the English language and whose works include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
- To save time, Neeley read the Bible page and Francie read from Shakespeare.†
Chpt 6
- They had been at this reading for six years and were halfway through the Bible and up to Macbeth in Shakespeare's Complete Works.†
Chpt 6
- Shakespeare is a great book.†
Chpt 9
- " "Is Shakespeare a book in the German?"†
Chpt 9
- That is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare.†
Chpt 9
- " "The Protestant Bible and Shakespeare.†
Chpt 9
- She went to a public library and asked the librarian how she could get a Shakespeare and a Bible for keeps.†
Chpt 9
- The librarian couldn't help her out on the Bible but said there was a worn-out copy of Shakespeare in the files, about to be discarded, which Sissy could have.†
Chpt 9
- A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel.†
Chpt 9
- Shakespeare.†
Chpt 12
- She read a page of the introduction to Shakespeare and a page of begats from the Bible.†
Chpt 12
- That night, after the page from the Bible and the page from Shakespeare had been read, Francie consulted Mama.†
Chpt 27
- She read a page from the Bible and Shakespeare every night the same as always.†
Chpt 28
- We've gone through Shakespeare four times already.†
Chpt 32
- " "Then read something from the Shakespeare book.†
Chpt 40
- Francie recited passages she knew by heart--Portia's speech, Marc Antony's funeral oration, "Tomorrow and tomorrow"--the obvious things that are remembered from Shakespeare.†
Chpt 40
- The Shakespeare…the Bible….†
Chpt 42
- They had stopped reading the Bible and Shakespeare since Neeley started high school.†
Chpt 47
- The drama of the Restoration, aside from the time-consuming reading required, was easy to manage after her home study of Shakespeare.†
Chpt 49
- Shakespeare, a tattered volume of Leaves of Grass, the three scrapbooks --The Nolan Volume of Contemporary Poetry, The Nolan Book of Classical Poems, and The Book of Annie Laurie.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(Shakespeare as in: William 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 (1564-1616)editor's notes: Shakespeare is the most quoted person in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (5th ed. 1999). Commonly quoted passages include:
This above all: to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day;
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.