Born: April 26, 1564
Died: April 23, 1616

This page features William Shakespeare plays, poetry and more. Please add your own discussion topics, or other original pages, about Shakespeare. Perhaps you have a favorite sonnet or play you would like to discuss.

Here you can view a list of Shakespeare works and read any of them online.

Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare was a man of many words and here are some of his timeless quotes:

• "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
  

• "He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. "

• "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."

• "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
• "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. "
  

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Trivia Quiz: Who is Shakespeare?

Since as early as the late 1600s, scholars have argued the validity of Shakespeare's existence. Some of their arguments are rather flimsy, but others seem to have some basis in truth. Try the quiz below to find out more about who Shakespeare might have been.

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More Shakespeare Q. and A.

-- Which Shakespearean character is the most verbose?
Shakespeare's most talkative character is Hamlet. None of his other characters have as many lines in a single play. (Falstaff, who appears in several plays, has more lines total).

-- What did Shakespeare have to do with the phrase "to budge not an inch?"
The phrase "To not budge an inch" is from Will Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, "Induction," Scene 1. This phrase was first uttered by the drunken tinker Christopher Sly. Sly's refusal to budge altered what had been a neutral verb up until then to a negation, according to word researcher Michael Macrone. As he points out in his book, Brush Up on Your Shakespeare, "No one ever says 'I budged' or 'let's budge.'"

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