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  2. Henry IV, Part 2 - Wikipedia

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    The Palace at Westminster, King Henry and the Prince of Wales (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 4), first published 1795, reissued 1852, Robert Thew, after Josiah Boydell. Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599.

  3. Heavy Lies the Crown - Wikipedia

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    Heavy lies the crown..." is a misquote of the line "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown", from Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2. Heavy Lies the Crown may also refer to: Music

  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. Damocles - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's Henry IV expands on this theme: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"; [12] compare the Hellenistic and Roman imagery connected with the insecurity offered by Tyche and Fortuna. In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer refers to the sword of Damocles, which the Knight describes as hanging over Conquest.

  6. Heavy Is the Crown - Wikipedia

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    Heavy Lies the Crown (disambiguation) Heavy Is the Head (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 21 October 2024, at 11:10 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  7. Sonnet 137 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 137 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.

  8. List of works titled after Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The Less Deceived, poem by Philip Larkin "The Chameleon's Dish", a song from In Visible Silence by Art of Noise (III.ii) The Mousetrap, 1952 play by Agatha Christie (III.ii) Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr (III.ii) Begin, Murderer by Desmond Cory (III.ii) "Very Like A Whale", poem by Ogden Nash (III.ii) Contagion to This World by John ...

  9. Sonnet 23 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 23 is one of a sequence of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence.. In the sonnet, the speaker is not able to adequately speak of his love, because of the intensity of his feelings.