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TextWilliam Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1) To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. - Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd.
Shakespeare, a genius of writing,a great ATSer of the past.
Originally posted by Dr Cosma
Wasn't it Sir Francis (God of) Bacon who wrote Shakespeares work?
I either read that somewhere or saw it somewhere, of course in a conspiracy site or documentary.
Originally posted by Dr Cosma
Wasn't it Sir Francis (God of) Bacon who wrote Shakespeares work?
I either read that somewhere or saw it somewhere, of course in a conspiracy site or documentary.
OLIVIA
(aside) Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
Than love that would seem hid. Love’s night is noon.
(to VIOLA) Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honor, truth, and everything,
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,
But rather reason thus with reason fetter.
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
William Shakespeare also was a member of a secret society.
Originally posted by Lazarus Short
William Shakespeare is one of the three pillars of English Literature (IMHO):
the 1600 King James Bible
the works of Shakespeare
the works of Tolkien
Beowulf doesn't cut it, it's not even English, it's Anglo-Saxon.
edit on 9-12-2011 by Lazarus Short because: lah-de-dah