
William Shakespeare
And all the men and women merely players ... English poet and playwright; widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language 1564-1616. An English playwright and poet (Sonnet no.18) "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate …" "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art so unkind as man's ingratitude" Hideaway of the banished nobleman Belarius in the mountains of Wales, from "Cymbeline" Residence of the Duke of Gloucester, from "King Lear" From "The Merchant of Venice" Home of 'the Duke of Athens', from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Place where love and death conjoin in "Romeo and Juliet" "From off a hill whose concave womb reworded" "and all the men and women merely players"
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