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Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.
The word has been used by adherents of the Baconian theory who believe Shakespeare's plays were written in steganographic cypher by Francis Bacon.In 1905 Isaac Hull Platt argued that it was an anagram for hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi, Latin for "these plays, F. Bacon's offspring, are preserved for the world".
Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.
Sonnet 135 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.Nominally, it follows the rhyme scheme of ...
She has taken the "friend", or the poet's homosexual side, from him, preventing the poet from living in his self-created utopia of homosexuality with the Young Man. [8] Unlike the young man sequence, in which the poet "defines his own identity [. . .] as poet and lover", in the Dark Lady sequence, particularly sonnet 133, "the poet-lover of the ...
Sonnet 11 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is a procreation sonnet within the 126 sonnets of the Fair Youth sequence, a grouping of Shakespeare's sonnets addressed to an unknown young man.
Yorick is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.He is the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed by the First Gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play. . The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a reminiscence by Prince Hamlet of the man, who apparently played a role during Hamlet's upbringin