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  2. All the world's a stage - Wikipedia

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    The comparison of the world to a stage and people to actors long predated Shakespeare. 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]

  3. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.

  4. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears - Wikipedia

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    "Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.

  5. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most-illustrated works. [186] The first known illustration was a woodcut of the tomb scene, [187] thought to be created by Elisha Kirkall, which appeared in Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's plays. [188]

  6. Richard III (play) - Wikipedia

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    Cibber himself played the role till 1739, and his version was on stage for the next century and a half. It contained the lines "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham" – possibly the most famous Shakespearean line that Shakespeare did not write – and "Richard's himself again!".

  7. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

  8. The 10 best modern Shakespeare movie adaptations, ranked - AOL

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    Netflix's historical drama "The King" is an unusual project. The film is based on characters and stories from Shakespeare's famous "Henriad" series of plays – Henry IV pt 1, Henry IV pt 2, Henry ...

  9. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    This was most likely Shakespeare's play. There is no immediately obvious alternative candidate. (While the story of Julius Caesar was dramatised repeatedly in the Elizabethan/Jacobean period, none of the other plays known are as good a match with Platter's description as Shakespeare's play.) [4] Summary