Best Of Shakespeare – LR Special Article!
Who among us have not been drawn to the romanticism and tragedy unfolding through the grappling tales of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth and others.
Shakespeare has been one of the authors that inspired my love of literature. I have quoted him time and again throughout my life and I bet so have you!! 🙂
LetsRedefine is bringing this special article for all our readers. Reading is good. LET’S KEEP READING!! 🙂 🙂
William Shakespeare is one of the greatest legends who has inspired millions to fall in love with literature.
He is best known as “England’s national poet” and also called as “Bard of Avon”.
He is well-known for his notorious attitude and sarcasm.
Here are a few of the best quotes of Shakespeare:
But first, here’s my favourite one 🙂
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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
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“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love”.
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“This above all; to thine own self be true”.
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“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound”.
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“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
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“What is past is prologue”
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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces”
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“I burn, I pine, I perish”
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“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety”
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Some of the best sonnets by Shakespeare are:
Sonnet 106
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express’d
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they look’d but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Had eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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Sonnet 138
When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor’d youth,
Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress’d.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love’s best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be.
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Sonnet 98
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew;
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.
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Some of the best Shakespeare books/ plays are:
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Hamlet
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Macbeth
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Romeo and Juliet
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A Midsummer night’s dream
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Othello
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Much Ado about nothing
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King Lear
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Twelfth Night
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The Tempest
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The Merchant of Venice
So, here are a few sample works of the greatest English poet who has ever lived.
Classic literature can never go wrong.
