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  2. Sleepwalking scene - Wikipedia

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    The sleepwalking scene is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606). Carrying a taper (candlestick), Lady Macbeth enters sleepwalking. The Doctor and the Gentlewoman stand aside to observe. The Doctor asks how Lady Macbeth came to have the light.

  3. List of Shakespearean scenes - Wikipedia

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    Scene Location Appr. # lines Synopsis I 1 Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra's palace. 71 I 2 Alexandria. Another room in Cleopatra's palace. 198 I 3 Alexandria. Another room in Cleopatra's palace. 125 I 4 Rome. Octavius Caesar's house. 93 I 5 Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace. 91 II 1 Messina. Pompey's house. 61 II 2 Rome. The house of Lepidus. 289 ...

  4. Celia (As You Like It) - Wikipedia

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    Celia is shorter than her cousin and less majestic in appearance. She has a gentle expression combined with a habitual serious appearance. Hence Rosalind addresses her at one time as "my pretty little coz" (As You Like It 4.1/218), and at another as, "sad brow and true maid" (As You Like It 3.2/218–219).

  5. All the Shakespeare References You May Have Missed in ... - AOL

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    Loosely based on William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You is chock-full of references to its source material that could be easily overlooked by the casual viewer.

  6. 100 loyalty quotes by everyone from Shakespeare to ... - AOL

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    These loyalty quotes help put words to the value of a trusting relationship as well as the heartbreak of betrayal, by names from Shakespeare to Selena Gomez. 100 loyalty quotes by everyone from ...

  7. All the world's a stage - Wikipedia

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    Richard Edwards' play Damon and Pythias, written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, "Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage". [2] When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto Totus mundus agit histrionem (All the ...

  8. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible ) or are proverbial .

  9. Women in Shakespeare's works - Wikipedia

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    Carol Chillington Rutter, author of Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage (2001), focuses for instance on the body of Cordelia, as her father, King Lear, carries her on to the stage; on the body of Ophelia in the grave; and on the bodies of the two women on the bed at the end of Othello, "a play that destroys women." [5]