Blue Orange Green Pink Purple

Posts Tagged ‘William Shakespeare’

You can use the search form below to go through the content and find a specific post or page:

Jan 01

Poem of the Week - The Seven Ages of Man

"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins the famous poetic soliloquy from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven [...]

Technorati Tags: As You Like It, famous opening lines, seven ages, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

Nov 18

Poem of the Week - O Mistress Mine

O Mistress Mine, known and read by many as one of William Shakespeare's most famous "love poems" was actually sung by Feste in Twelfth Night. It is one of a set of five "Shakespeare Songs" which Arthur Sullivan composed as "contemporary" music during 1863 and 1864. Since then it has been sung and recorded in [...]

Technorati Tags: arthur sullivan, emilie autumn, emusic, feste, great books online, joe hillyer, love poem, o mistress mine, twelfth night, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, winged zephyr