Remarkable mind
William Shakespeare
English playwright, poet and actor · 1564–1616
William Shakespeare wrote for the commercial stage of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England. His comedies, histories, tragedies and sonnets examine love, political power, ambition, jealousy, identity and mortality with a linguistic influence that remains unusually broad.
Selected works and contributions
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
- King Lear
- The Sonnets
Ideas to explore
- Love
- Power
- Ambition
- Mortality
William Shakespeare quotes in the generator
“Action is eloquence.”
— William Shakespeare
“Speak low, if you speak love.”
— William Shakespeare
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
— William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
— William Shakespeare
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
— William Shakespeare
“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”
— William Shakespeare
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