Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale written by Matteo Bandello and translated into verse as The Tragical Hi…
"Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.”
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who see…
A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather e multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.”
A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.”
“What’s in a name? at which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
In the English countryside, a poor tinker named Christopher Sly becomes the target of a prank by a local lord. Finding Sly drunk out of his wits in front of an alehouse, the lord has his men take S…
"Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.”