William Shakespeare
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
His life, plays, and poetry
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All About Shakespeare
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- Famous Quotes from Shakespeare
- Quiz: Famous Quotes from Shakespeare's Plays
- Quiz: Shakespeare's Life and Times
Related Links
- Famous Shakespearean Actors
- Table of Shakespeare's Plays
- Shakespeare on Film
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
Text of Shakespeare's Plays
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry the Fourth, I
- Henry the Fourth, II
- Henry the Fifth
- Henry the Sixth, I
- Henry the Sixth, II
- Henry the Sixth, III
- Henry the Eighth
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- Measure for Measure
- Macbeth
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Richard the Second
- Richard the Third
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Winter's Tale
Text of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- From fairest creatures we des...
- When forty winters shall besi...
- Look in thy glass and tell th...
- Unthrifty loveliness, why dos...
- Those hours, that with gentle...
- Then let not winter's ragged ...
- Lo! in the orient when the gr...
- Music to hear, why hear'st th...
- Is it for fear to wet a widow...
- For shame! deny that thou bea...
- As fast as thou shalt wane, s...
- When I do count the clock tha...
- O! that you were your self; b...
- Not from the stars do I my ju...
- When I consider every thing t...
- But wherefore do not you a mi...
- Who will believe my verse in ...
- Shall I compare thee to a sum...
- Devouring Time, blunt thou th...
- A woman's face with nature's ...
- So is it not with me as with ...
- My glass shall not persuade m...
- As an unperfect actor on the ...
- Mine eye hath play'd the pain...
- Let those who are in favour w...
- Lord of my love, to whom in v...
- Weary with toil, I haste me t...
- How can I then return in happ...
- When in disgrace with fortune...
- When to the sessions of sweet...
- Thy bosom is endeared with al...
- If thou survive my well-conte...
- Full many a glorious morning ...
- Why didst thou promise such a...
- No more be griev'd at that wh...
- Let me confess that we two mu...
- As a decrepit father takes de...
- How can my muse want subject ...
- O! how thy worth with manners...
- Take all my loves, my love, y...
- Those pretty wrongs that libe...
- That thou hast her it is not ...
- When most I wink, then do min...
- If the dull substance of my f...
- The other two, slight air, an...
- Mine eye and heart are at a m...
- Betwixt mine eye and heart a ...
- How careful was I when I took...
- Against that time, if ever th...
- How heavy do I journey on the...
- Thus can my love excuse the s...
- So am I as the rich, whose bl...
- What is your substance, where...
- O! how much more doth beauty ...
- Not marble, nor the gilded mo...
- Sweet love, renew thy force; ...
- Being your slave what should ...
- That god forbid, that made me...
- If there be nothing new, but ...
- Like as the waves make toward...
- Is it thy will, thy image sho...
- Sin of self-love possesseth a...
- Against my love shall be as I...
- When I have seen by Time's fe...
- Since brass, nor stone, nor e...
- Tired with all these, for res...
- Ah! wherefore with infection ...
- Thus is his cheek the map of ...
- Those parts of thee that the ...
- That thou art blam'd shall no...
- No longer mourn for me when I...
- O! lest the world should task...
- That time of year thou mayst ...
- But be contented: when that f...
- So are you to my thoughts as ...
- Why is my verse so barren of ...
- Thy glass will show thee how ...
- So oft have I invoked thee fo...
- Whilst I alone did call upon ...
- O! how I faint when I of you ...
- Or I shall live your epitaph ...
- I grant thou wert not married...
- I never saw that you did pain...
- Who is it that says most, whi...
- My tongue-tied Muse in manner...
- Was it the proud full sail of...
- Farewell! thou art too dear f...
- When thou shalt be dispos'd t...
- Say that thou didst forsake m...
- Then hate me when thou wilt; ...
- Some glory in their birth, so...
- But do thy worst to steal thy...
- So shall I live, supposing th...
- They that have power to hurt,...
- How sweet and lovely dost tho...
- Some say thy fault is youth, ...
- How like a winter hath my abs...
- From you have I been absent i...
- The forward violet thus did I...
- Where art thou Muse that thou...
- O truant Muse what shall be t...
- My love is strengthen'd, thou...
- Alack! what poverty my Muse b...
- To me, fair friend, you never...
- Let not my love be call'd ido...
- When in the chronicle of wast...
- Not mine own fears, nor the p...
- What's in the brain, that ink...
- O! never say that I was false...
- Alas! 'tis true, I have gone ...
- O! for my sake do you with Fo...
- Your love and pity doth the i...
- Since I left you, mine eye is...
- Or whether doth my mind, bein...
- Those lines that I before hav...
- Let me not to the marriage of...
- Accuse me thus: that I have s...
- Like as, to make our appetite...
- What potions have I drunk of ...
- That you were once unkind bef...
- 'Tis better to be vile than v...
- Thy gift, thy tables, are wit...
- No, Time, thou shalt not boas...
- If my dear love were but the ...
- Were't aught to me I bore the...
- O thou, my lovely boy, who in...
- In the old age black was not ...
- How oft when thou, my music, ...
- The expense of spirit in a wa...
- My mistress' eyes are nothing...
- Thou art as tyrannous, so as ...
- Thine eyes I love, and they, ...
- Beshrew that heart that makes...
- So, now I have confess'd that...
- Whoever hath her wish, thou h...
- If thy soul check thee that I...
- Thou blind fool, Love, what d...
- When my love swears that she ...
- O! call not me to justify the...
- Be wise as thou art cruel; do...
- In faith I do not love thee w...
- Love is my sin, and thy dear ...
- Lo, as a careful housewife ru...
- Two loves I have of comfort a...
- Those lips that Love's own ha...
- Poor soul, the centre of my s...
- My love is as a fever longing...
- O me! what eyes hath Love put...
- Canst thou, O cruel! say I lo...
- O! from what power hast thou ...
- Love is too young to know wha...
- In loving thee thou know'st I...
- Cupid laid by his brand and f...
- The little Love-god lying onc...
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