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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

—Hamlet

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William Shakespeare

1564–1616, English dramatist and poet, b. Stratford-on-Avon. He is considered the greatest playwright who ever lived.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Table of Plays and Entry from Brewer’s Dictionary.)

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WORKS: The Oxford Shakespeare
The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVI, Parts 2–5.; Bartlett’s Shakespeare Quotations
Over 1500 quotations from all of Shakespeare’s plays and many poems formed the nucleus of John Bartlett’s famous collection.; Shakespeare, William, 49885 to 53352
Over 3400 entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.; Anthologized Verse
The editors of the Oxford Book of English Verse and the Golden Treasury present 74 verse selections from Shakespeare’s poems and plays.
WRITINGS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE: “Life, Plays, Poems and Bibliography”
The great teacher and scholar George Saintsbury created the touchstone for Shakespeare reference with these chapters from the Cambridge History of English Literature.; “Hamlet and His Problems”
T.S. Eliot’s essay on Shakespeare’s greatest tragic character in which he coined the famous doctrine of the “objective correlative.”; “Shakspeare; or, the Poet”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lecture from Representative Men.
RELATED WORK: Lamb, Charles and Mary. 1878. Tales from Shakespeare.
The Lambs’ interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own to bring 20 of his most famous plays to the young reader.

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