William Shakespeare Quotes
Ah me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is!
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, Simon & Schuster, 2011, act 2, sc. 4, lines 45-46.
The commissioner was responding to questions about a player-fan brawl that had occurred earlier that year. The media had replayed the tapes of the event thousands of times. The commissioner’s observation applied to everyone in the public eye. Politicians too are so defined as when Edmund Muskie during the Presidential Primary contest cried or with Nixon’s attack on the press or Governor Dean’s scream in Iowa.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
