As you probably guessed, I'm referring to William Shakespeare. When he was young he worked with a theater group that moved around from town to town performing anywhere the town had room for them. Then as he got older Shakespeare and some of his friends decided to break off from the main group and start their own theater company.
He kept getting older (as all of us do) and he started not only performing plays but also writing them. He wrote all kinds of plays, drama, comedy, tragedy, historical and many other styles. Some of his famous shows are The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Richard III, Henry V, Macbeth and those are only a few of his plays.
Something you may not have realized is that many common phrases used are actually lines from Shakespeare's plays. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" "To be or not to be?" Those are both lines from Hamlet. "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" is from Richard III. "You're going to eat me out of house and home!" This line is from the show Henry IV, Part 2. And if you have heard of jealousy being called a "Green-eyed monster", you are hearing a reference to Othello.
He kept getting older (as all of us do) and he started not only performing plays but also writing them. He wrote all kinds of plays, drama, comedy, tragedy, historical and many other styles. Some of his famous shows are The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Richard III, Henry V, Macbeth and those are only a few of his plays.
Something you may not have realized is that many common phrases used are actually lines from Shakespeare's plays. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" "To be or not to be?" Those are both lines from Hamlet. "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" is from Richard III. "You're going to eat me out of house and home!" This line is from the show Henry IV, Part 2. And if you have heard of jealousy being called a "Green-eyed monster", you are hearing a reference to Othello.
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