To subjects worse have given admiring praise.Įcclesiastes 1 could well be a commentary on Shakespeare’s writing career. Whether we are mended, or where better they, That I might see what the old world could say Since mind at first in character was done, Oh that record could with a backward look, Hath been before, how are our brains beguil’d, If there be nothing new, but that which is One can see that he part quotes from it in Sonnet 95, beginning it with ‘If there be nothing new,’ and continuing with his main idea for the sonnet, playing around with the Ecclesiastes phrase, using ‘courses of the sun’ to refer to ‘days.’ Shakespeare knew that, and he clearly liked that bit of Ecclesiastes. Whatever you may encounter, however new or revolutionary it may seem to you, you can be sure that it’s not new. He uses the phrase ‘under the sun,’ specifying the endeavours of living human beings on Earth. There’s nothing new under the sun… is there?Įcclesiastes is a sermon by someone known as ‘the preacher.’ He talks about life in general but in this part, Ecclesiastes 1: 9, he makes the point that there is nothing new in this world. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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