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The Walls Have Ears. The Walls Have Ears ( Spanish: Las paredes oyen) [1] is a play written by the Spanish playwright Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. [2] It was first staged in 1617, but it was not published until 1628 in the first part of Alarcón's collected plays. [3] A manuscript of the work was discovered in 1882 in the Library of the Duke of Osuna ...
William Shakespeare. 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. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
To be, or not to be. " To be, or not to be " is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare 's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1). The speech is named for the opening phrase, itself among the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and has been referenced in many works of theatre ...
List of translators of William Shakespeare. This is a list of translators of one or more works of William Shakespeare into respective languages. Translator. Target language. A. de Herz. Romanian. August Wilhelm Schlegel. German. Avraham Shlonsky.
First Folio. Title page of the first impression (1623). Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ...
Sonnet 83 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDCD EE and is composed in iambic pentameter, a metre of five feet per line, with two syllables in each foot accented weak/strong. Most of the lines are examples of regular iambic pentameter ...
Prospero ( / ˈprɒspəroʊ / PROS-pər-o) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare 's play The Tempest . Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins.
Speak the speech. " Speak the speech " is a famous speech from Shakespeare 's Hamlet (1601). [1] In it, Hamlet offers directions and advice to a group of actors whom he has enlisted to play for the court of Denmark. The speech itself has played two important roles independent of the play. It has been analyzed as a historical document for clues ...