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  2. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:

  3. Sonnet 100 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 100 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Structure

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare: The Dire Straits songs makes use of certain aspects of Shakespeare's play, as well as elements of some of the play's stage and screen adaptations. It also purposely diverges from the play's plot and characterizations in certain respects (such as Juliet's reaction to being approached by Romeo). [179] "Rusty James" ¡Uno ...

  5. Music in the plays of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Vaughan Williams was engaged to write incidental music at Stratford between 1912 and 1913. Rosabel Watson directed and arranged music for many productions at Stratford and elsewhere. [3] A Shakespeare Music Catalogue (1991) lists over 20,000 items of theatrical and non-theatrical music associated with Shakespeare, much of it unpublished. [4]

  6. 100 loyalty quotes by everyone from Shakespeare to ... - AOL

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    These loyalty quotes help put words to the value of a trusting relationship as well as the heartbreak of betrayal, by names from Shakespeare to Selena Gomez. 100 loyalty quotes by everyone from ...

  7. My Robin is to the greenwood gone - Wikipedia

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    Although the words have been lost, it is suspected that the character Ophelia, who is specified in the First Quarto version of Hamlet to be a lutenist, sings the last line of the tune ("For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy") during her madness (Hamlet 4.5/210). [2] Some scholars believe that Shakespeare's choice of the song was meant to invoke ...

  8. Sonnet 116 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 116 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.

  9. King quotes Shakespeare in moving tribute to Queen in speech ...

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    Charles once again reached for Shakespeare, after quoting from the play Hamlet in his address to the nation last week. “As Shakespeare says of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was ‘a pattern ...