SHAKESPEARE

All the world’s (but) a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes. * I wish I could write better.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. (Hamlet)

Talkers are no good doers. (Richard III, Act 1) * I'm no artist but I was pleased with how the drawing came out. (ningun, not genuine, effective, convincing)

And worse I may be yet: The worst is not, so long as we can say, 'This is the worst'. (provided that’, ‘providing that’ or ‘on condition that’). King Lear *  You were one of the worse, if not THE worst mistake I have ever made.

The world is but a stage where every man must play a part. (The world is but a stage, and the play is badly cast!) 

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Hamlet)

To be or not to be, that is the question. (spoken by Hamlet)

We are such stuff as dreams are made on. Surely you’ve heard the misquote, “We are such stuff as dreams are made of.”  It’s actually “on”. (says Prospero near the end of The Tempest, “And our little lives are rounded with a sleep).



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William Shakespeare

 https://www.onthisday.com/date/1616

(bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.

Cronology

1562. Kissing in public was banned and punishable by death in Naples, Italy. Authorities were more concerned about public health than morality. A second plague was spreading through Europe like wildfire, and leaders were doing anything in their power to blunt the epidemic—including killing those who kissed. Unfortunately, the law seemed to do little to prevent the spread of the plague,



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Timeline of Shakespeare's Life

1564: William Shakespeare is born to John and Mary Shakespeare. He is the third of eight Shakespeare children. Shakespeare is baptized on April 26. (Baptismal records suggest, but do not prove, that his date of birth was April 23.) Elizabeth I is in the sixth year of her reign as Queen of England. Christopher Marlowe is born in Canterbury, England (d. 1593) around February 26. Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, (d. 1642) Michelangelo dies at 88 (b. 1475); John Calvin dies at 54 (b. 1509).
1568: John Shakespeare is elected high bailiff of Stratford (a modern mayor).
1582: Shakespeare, eighteen, marries Anne Hathaway, who is pregnant at the time of the wedding. She is from Shottery, a village not far from Stratford.
1583: Shakespeare's daughter Susanna is born in May.
1585: Shakespeare's daughter Judith and son Hamnet (twins) are born.
1585-1592: These are the "lost years" of Shakespeare. Little, if anything, is known about his activities during this period except that he went to London to begin his acting and writing career.     
1588. The Spanish Armada set sail from Spain in July, with the mission of overthrowing the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and restoring Catholic rule over England. Many years previously in the early 1530s, under instruction from Elizabeth’s father King Henry VIII, the Protestant Church of England had broken away from the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. After Henry died however, his eldest daughter Mary eventually succeeded him and in attempting to restore Catholicism to the country married King Philip II of Spain.
1592: An outbreak of plague closes London theatres. Writer Robert Greene criticizes Shakespeare and his writing in a pamphlet entitled “Greene's Goatsworth of Wit.” Greene writes:

Yes, trust them not [actors], for there is an upstart crow [Shakespeare], beautified with our [writers'] feathers, that, with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum [jack-of-all-trades], is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie.”

Greene's criticism actually does Shakespeare a favor. First, it recognizes him as a competitive writer. Second, it serves as valuable historical testimony that Shakespeare was both writing and acting in London in 1592.

1596: Hamnet Shakespeare, eleven, dies.
1601: Shakespeare's father dies.
1607: Susanna Shakespeare marries John Hall, an herbalist and a physician.
1608: Shakespeare's mother dies.
1616: Shakespeare writes his will. Judith Shakespeare marries Thomas Quiney. Shakespeare alters his will in March, possibly because he wishes to exclude Quiney from benefiting from Judith's inheritance. Shakespeare dies on April 23 and is laid to rest in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. On his tombstone are engraved these words, which appear to have been written by Shakespeare himself: 

Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism

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A man can die but once. (Henry IV) vs Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. (Julius Caesar)

All the world’s (but) a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. (Julius Caesar)

Come what come may, time runs through the roughest day. (Macbeth)

I hold the world but as the world, a stage where every man must play a part.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes. * I wish I could write better.

   
Men of few words are the best men.

Nothing will come of nothing. (King Lear)

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. (Hamlet)

Talkers are no good doers

The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

The world is but a stage where every man must play a part. (The world is but a stage, and the play is badly cast!)

The worst is not, so long as we can say, 'This is the worst'. (provided that’, ‘providing that’ or ‘on condition that’). King Lear

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Hamlet)


To be or not to be, that is the question. 

We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

What is past is prologue.
 
We are such stuff as dreams are made of.  (The Tempest)

We have seen better days.

We know what we are (now), but (know) not what we may be / become.

   



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