Shakespeare
Christopher Benjamin as Falstaff in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Shakespeare's Globe 2010
“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” (1595).
“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” (1595).
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 3” (1595).
“Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” (1594).
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” (1597).
“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” (1595).
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Meredith Garretson as Rosalind, Nikki Massoud as Celia, and Aubrey Deeker Hernandez as Oliver in As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, directed by Jessica Stone, running June 16 – July 21, 2019 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” (1594).
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“Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” (1600).
Shakespeare as artist. From the Sangorski Shakespeare, 1926.