Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2): “Good night, good night.Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1): “To be, or not to be: that is the question”.From Richard III (Act 1, Scene 1): “Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York”.From Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2): “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!”.

From Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2): “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?”.Here are some of his more famous quotes, which demonstrate several of these syllabic rhyming styles: But he also used rhyming couplets and other forms such as trochaic tetrameter. In his plays, he often (but not always) used unrhymed iambic pentameter known as “blank verse”, which placed stress on different syllables. A line of iambic verse contains ten syllables, with stress placed on every other syllable.

Many portions of his plays, as well as his sonnets were composed in a traditional poetry form of the time known as iambic pentameter.

From Germany to Jerusalem, prison theaters and refugee camps, you can find Shakespeare’s’ plays under production. Shakepeare’s works are the most performed and read plays in theaters and performance venues around the world. Known as “The Bard” (which means poet), he is regarded by many as one of the greatest, if not the greatest English writer of all time. He wrote dozens of plays including histories about English kings, tragedies such as Macbeth and Hamlet, a long list of comedies, poems, and over 100 sonnets (a poem of fourteen lines). William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet who lived the late 16th and early 17th century.

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