This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up,Ĭlarence comes. In deadly hate the one against the other: To entertain these fair well-spoken days,Īnd hate the idle pleasures of these days.īy drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,Īnd therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,Ĭheated of feature by dissembling nature,ĭeformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,īut I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front Īnd now, instead of mounting barded steeds Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths Made glorious summer by this sun of York Īnd all the clouds that lour’d upon our house This line ranks among the most famous and most quoted opening lines of any Shakespeare play, alongside such openings as ‘When shall we three meet again/In thunder, lightning or in rain? ( Macbeth), ‘If music be the food of love play on’ ( Twelfth night) and ‘Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona where we lay our scene’ ( Romeo and Juliet) ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ soliloquy spoken by Richard, Act 1, Scene 1 ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ opens a quite stunning soliloquy by the young Richard, Duke of Gloucester in the opening line of Shakespeare’s Richard III play. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
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