You’re beautiful and therefore to be pursued. You’re noble and therefore regarded as someone to be won. Those innocent infidelities that your independence allows you to commit when you occasionally forget about me are normal for someone with your youthfulness and beauty because temptation follows you wherever you go. Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:– Will sourly leave her till he have prevail’d?Īy me! but yet thou might’st my seat forbear,Īnd chide thy beauty and thy straying youth, Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,īeauteous thou art, therefore to be assail’d Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,įor still temptation follows where thou art. When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,

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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