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The first known occurrences of the phrase are said to be in two earlier Elizabethan plays: Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, and an even earlier play, Caesar Interfectus, by Richard Edes. [3] The phrase is often used apart from the plays to signify an unexpected betrayal by a friend. There is no evidence that the historical Caesar spoke these words.
Julius Caesar Navigator Includes Shakespeare's text with notes, line numbers, and a search function. No Fear Shakespeare Archived 23 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine Includes the play line by line with interpretation. Julius Caesar Archived 21 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the British Library; Julius Caesar at Standard Ebooks
The belief that Shakespeare may have written very little of 1 Henry VI first came from Edmond Malone in his 1790 edition of Shakespeare's plays, which included A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI, in which he argued that the large number of classical allusions in the play was more characteristic of Nashe, Peele, or Greene than of ...
Sonnet 86 is one of 154 sonnets first published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in the Quarto of 1609. It is the final poem of the Rival Poet group of the Fair Youth sonnets in which Shakespeare writes about an unnamed young man and a rival poet competing for the youth's favor.
True Tragedy is both a reported text and an early draft of Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI. This theory gained increasing support in the latter half of the 20th century, and is supported by several modern editors of the play. Shakespeare was not the author of the True Tragedy, but made use of the anonymous play as the basis for his 3 Henry VI.
Formatted text (HTML) of the play; No Fear Shakespeare parallel edition Archived 6 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine: original language alongside a modern translation; Clear Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: a word-by-word audio guide through the play; A Midsummer Night's Dream 2016 Internet Movie Database
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Pairs of lines in the octave are parallel thematically: according to Vendler, "[c]areful parallels are drawn between [lines 1 & 2] and [ll 5 & 6] by fear and perfect (unperfect), between [ll 3 & 4] and [ll 7 & 8] by strength and own (his/mine)." She says when Shakespeare frames a sonnet this intentionally, "something is about to burst loose." [16]