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O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou?
To be, or not to be...
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other
word would smell as sweet.
To the Reader.
This Figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle
Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the Graver had a strife
with Nature, to out-doo the life :
O, could he but have drawne his
wit
As well in brasse, as he hath hit
His face ; the Print would then surpasse
All, that was ever writ in brasse.
But,
since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
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DID U KNOW?
The name William Shakespeare is an old one in, and goes as far back as 1248. It came from a thief posessing
the same name, who was executed for criminalism.
"Shakespeare" is an extremely varied name in terms of spelling and pronunciation. Here are some different
ways it has been spelled and pronounced:
Shakspere; Shakespere; Shakkespere; Shaxpere; Shakstaff; Shagspere; Sakspere; Shakeshafte; Chaksper.
Shakespeare's father's name, JOHN SHAKESPEARE, occurs 166 times in the council book of the Stratford
corporation, and takes 16 different forms. Shakesspeare himself always signed 'Shakspere', but in many documents of his work,
his name appeared 'Shakespeare. Often in the 15th century, authors would hyphenate their surname in order to avoid revealing
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