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Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English writer and poet. He lived from 15641616. He is one of the most famous writers in history. The teacher said: "I think next we will read something by Shakespeare. Maybe Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. Sometimes, when people say "Shakespeare," they mean "something written by William Shakespeare." Every year, the school's theater group performed a play. The new theater teacher told the group: "Next year, we will be performing Shakespeare."

Shakespeare

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

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The Royal Shakespeare Company is presenting The Merchant of Venice next week.
The professor is noted for his study of Shakespeare.
Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare was born, is visited by many tourists every year.
Shakespeare created many famous characters.
Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets.
Shakespeare wrote both tragedy and comedy.
Shakespeare knew only a little Latin, but he put the little he knew to very good use.
Shakespeare compared the world to a stage.
In Shakespeare's time, in the sixteenth century, tennis was very popular at the English court.
Shakespeare is too hard to read.
Shakespeare is recognized to be the greatest dramatist.
That professor is an authority on Shakespeare.
Talking of Shakespeare, have you ever read his work?
Shakespeare is the greatest poet that England has ever produced.
Shakespeare, whose plays are world-famous, lived some four hundred years ago.
Whether Shakespeare wrote this poem or not will probably remain a mystery.
The lesson of this story is not that reading Shakespeare will help one rise in the business world.
How many of Shakespeare's tragedies have you read?

Movie subtitles

It's only the greatest love story - since Shakespeare.
How is it that Shakespeare says?
Didn't Shakespeare begin by holding horses?
Hello there, Shakespeare.
What's all that Shakespeare business of yours about?
No, that's Shakespeare.
Shakespeare.
That's interesting, everybody reads Shakespeare around here.
Are you quoting Shakespeare?
Let Shakespeare rest in peace.
Shakespeare is Ernest?
You probably never heard of Shakespeare either.
Half Shakespeare and half me.
Shakespeare. - Longfellow.
And so the subject of today's dictation will not be The Invisible Man, but Shakespeare's life.
Shakespeare didn't change any lines.
Didn't Shakespeare begin by holding horses? - Who?
Shakespeare. - Never heard of him.
He was quoting Shakespeare.
You forbid the performance of Richard II by Master Shakespeare and his players without consulting me.
You wouldn't know. You probably never heard of Shakespeare either.
It'll put Shakespeare back with the shipping news. Quiet!
Shakespeare must have thought of me when he wrote this. It's me.
What he did to Shakespeare, we are doing now to Poland.
After all, we are in the country of William Shakespeare.
Half the time you talk as if Shakespeare weren't fit to tie your shoelaces.
First, I want my shoes half-soled. Then I'll buy the collected works of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, for Pete's sake.
I thought Shakespeare actors used spears.
SOUNDS LIKE SHAKESPEARE, BUT ISN'T.
Shakespeare. Ibsen.
I'm supposed to be in Europe doing Shakespeare.
I took the liberty of glancing through your Shakespeare.

News and current affairs

Truth will out, as Shakespeare reminds us, and eventually even Becker's harshest early critics came around to appreciating his deep insights and conclusions.
I will leave it to Shakespeare scholars to decipher what he had in mind.
But this book is as different as the first Shakespeare folio of 1623 is from the latest Penguin edition.
The question is not one of popularity alone - after all, Mozart was popular in his day, and Shakespeare's plays attracted the poor as well as the rich - but of mass culture's refusal to challenge and provoke.
The outcome resembles a Shakespeare comedy of confused identity.
The president's physical appearance and his body language - if he was a Shakespeare character, he would probably be the traitor Iago in Othello - are part of the problem.
In the fall of 2001 the Parisian Comedie Francaise staged a brilliant production of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
We may agree with Smith (and Shakespeare) about the uselessness of lawyers perhaps, but surely not about Olivier, Falstaff, and Pavarotti.
And Shakespeare noted that tooth decay was a cause of awful pain and unpleasant odor.
Indians like to think we can hold our own against the best in the world in any field: our Kalidasa can stand up to their Shakespeare, our Ramanujan to their Einstein, our Bollywood to their Hollywood and, these days, our Infosys to their Microsoft.

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