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  2. A plague o' both your houses! - Wikipedia

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    Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. A plague o' both your houses! is a catchphrase from William Shakespeare 's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The phrase is used to express irritation and irony regarding a dispute or conflict between two parties. It is considered one of the most famous expressions attributed to Shakespeare.

  3. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Biblical allusions in Shakespeare. According to Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, Shakespeare, in writing his plays, "seldom borrows biblical references from his sources, even when those sources contain many references." [1] Roy Battenhouse notes that the Shakespearean tragedy "frequently echoes Bible language or paradigm, even when the play's setting is ...

  4. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, often shortened to Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young ...

  5. Characters in Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy, features the eponymous protagonists Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The cast of characters also includes members of their respective families and households; Prince Escalus, the city's ruler, and his kinsman, Count Paris; and various unaffiliated characters such as Friar Laurence and the Chorus. In addition, the play ...

  6. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    ForLady Greysee Queen Elizabeth. Lady Macbeth (hist), wife to the protagonist in Macbeth, is a central character who conspires with her husband to murder Duncan. She later goes mad and dies, possibly through suicide. Lady Macduff, wife to Macduff, is murdered, with her children, in Macbeth. Lady Montague is Romeo's mother in Romeo and Juliet.

  7. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    " Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow " is the beginning of the second sentence of one of the most famous soliloquies in William Shakespeare 's tragedy Macbeth. It takes place in the beginning of the fifth scene of Act 5, during the time when the Scottish troops, led by Malcolm and Macduff, are approaching Macbeth 's castle to besiege it.

  8. Queen Mab - Wikipedia

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    Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, in which the character Mercutio famously describes her as "the fairies' midwife", a miniature creature who rides her chariot (which is driven by a team of atom-sized creatures) over the bodies of sleeping humans during the nighttime, thus helping them "give birth" to their dreams. Later depictions in other poetry ...

  9. Sonnet 12 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 12 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, the poet goes through a series of images of mortality, such as a clock, a withering flower, a barren tree and autumn, etc.