http://shakespeare.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Shakespeare GuideSite. http://z.about.com/f/lg/s10.gif http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-05-04T22:37:17Z hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/05/09/a-guide-to-sonnet-130-3.htm My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires,... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/05/09/a-guide-to-sonnet-130-3.htm 2008-05-09T00:29:51Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/05/04/shakespeare-on-old-age-7.htm What does Shakespeare have to say about growing older and being old? Here is a selection of Shakespearean quotations about old age. ... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/05/04/shakespeare-on-old-age-7.htm 2008-05-04T22:37:17Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/05/01/top-10-quotations-from-othello-4.htm Othello, the story of a valiant Moorish general who falls prey to the devious schemes of Iago, is packed with memorable lines. Here are the most famous of them all. Related... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/05/01/top-10-quotations-from-othello-4.htm 2008-05-01T14:06:36Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/27/macbeth-study-guide-4.htm Lady Macbeth is Shakespeare's most evil feminine creation. Her satanic prayer to the forces of darkness in Act 1 is chilling to modern readers and it would have been absolutely... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/27/macbeth-study-guide-4.htm 2008-04-27T22:08:17Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/20/are-shakespeares-works-written-in-old-english.htm Shakespeare's complex sentence structures and use of now obsolete words lead many students to think they are reading Old or Middle English. In fact, Shakespeare's works are written in Early... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/20/are-shakespeares-works-written-in-old-english.htm 2008-04-20T23:24:47Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/17/deception-in-hamlet-6.htm Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on, That you, at such times... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/17/deception-in-hamlet-6.htm 2008-04-17T15:29:26Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/13/poll-most-evil-villain-3.htm Could it be the tyrannical, morally vacuous Richard III? Or perhaps the greedy and exceptionally cruel Cornwall? What do you think? Cast your vote here. ... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/13/poll-most-evil-villain-3.htm 2008-04-13T20:46:10Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/06/shakespeare-on-fate-2.htm Although the idea of the wheel of fortune existed before Boethius, his work was the source on the subject for Chaucer, Dante, Machiavelli, and of course, Shakespeare. Call it what... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/06/shakespeare-on-fate-2.htm 2008-04-06T21:15:05Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/03/swan-of-avon-3.htm There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), "A Vision of Poets" More quotes praising the... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/04/03/swan-of-avon-3.htm 2008-04-03T00:10:14Z http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/03/28/a-fruitless-crown-2.htm Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. Macbeth (3.1.60) Quick Fact Macbeth here... http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/03/28/a-fruitless-crown-2.htm 2008-03-28T01:32:17Z