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Publication Date:
2004
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Little is known about Shakespeare's early years. His father, John
Shakespeare, was a glover and dealer in commodities and was a man of
some standing in the local community. His mother, Mary Arden, was of
higher social class. Shakespeare seems to have attended the local grammar
school at Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was born, but no records remain.
In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older
than he was, and they had three children by 1585. His time from then until
1592 remains a mystery. In 1594, however, he became a leading member of
the newly formed acting company the Lord Chamberlain's Men (who became
the King's Men at the accession of James I) and he remained with them for
the rest of his career. In 1599 the company occupied the Globe theatre in
London and in 1608 took over Blackfriars as a winter house. Shakespeare
lived and worked in London, but his family remained in Stratford.
Shakespeare's plays are still performed with more regularity than those of
any other playwright and film versions frequently appear.
Fidele
Love
Orpheus
? or John Fletcher.
ORPHEUS with his lute made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
William Shakespeare
Sigh No More
Silvia
Sonet LIV
Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there
Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
Sonnet 13: 0, that you were your self! But, love, you are
Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will
Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make
Sonnet 150: 0 from what power hast thou this powerful might
Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more
Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Sonnet Mai
Sonnet )0C
Sonnet MCI
Sonnet )00CIV
Sonnets CVII: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
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William Shakespeare
Sonnets CX: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
Sonnets LX: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shor
Sonnets XCIV: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Sonnets xx
Sonnets XXV: Let those who are in favour with their stars
Spring
The Blossom
The Argument
Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus, after he had
caused his own father-in-law Servius Tullius to be cruelly murdered, and,
contrary to the Roman laws and customs, not requiring or staying for the
people's suffrages, had possessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied
with his sons and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. During which
siege the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of
Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after supper every
one commended the virtues of his own wife: among whom Collatinus extolled
the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia. In that pleasant humour
they posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to
make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus
finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her
maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several
disports. Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus the victory, and his
wife the fame. At that time Sextus Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece'
beauty, yet smothering his passions for the present, departed with the rest
back to the camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself,
and was, according to his estate, royally entertained and lodged by Lucrece
at Collatium. The same night he treacherously stealeth into her chamber,
violently ravished her, and early in the morning speedeth away. Lucrece, in
this lamentable plight, hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her
father, another to the camp for Collatine. They came, the one accompanied
with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius; and finding Lucrece
attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause of her sorrow. She, first
taking an oath of them for her revenge, revealed the actor, and whole
manner of his dealing, and withal suddenly stabbed herself. Which done,
with one consent they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the
Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted the people
with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a bitter invective against
the tyranny of the king: wherewith the people were so moved, that with one
consent and a general acclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the
state government changed from kings to consuls.
FROM the besieged Ardea all in post,
Borne by the trustless wings of false desire,
Three Songs
Winter