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And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe. And then from hour to hour we rot and rot. And thereby hangs a tale. In Early Modern English, "hour" was pronounced , homophonous to "whore"; H-dropping was regularly observed. The change in pronunciation of both words in Modern English means that a sexual joke is missed by a modern audience.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the Duke Orsino ...
"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.
Created by. William Shakespeare. Jaques (variously / ˈdʒeɪkwiːz / and / ˈdʒeɪkz /) is one of the main characters in Shakespeare 's As You Like It. "The melancholy Jaques", as he is known, is one of the exiled Duke Senior's noblemen who live with him in the Forest of Arden. Jaques takes no part in the unfolding of the plot, and confines ...
Caliban (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ b æ n / KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: [1] as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ...
William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [ a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [ b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [ 4][ 5][ 6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599. [ 1] The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. The play is set in Messina and revolves around two romantic pairings that emerge when a group of soldiers arrive in the town. The first, between Claudio and Hero, is nearly ...
Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged after his death until the Interregnum (1642–1660), when most public stage performances were banned by the Puritan rulers. After the English Restoration, Shakespeare's plays were performed in playhouses, with elaborate scenery, and staged with music, dancing, thunder, lightning, wave machines, and ...