The first two lines in Shakespeare's poem A Lover's Complaint are: "From off a hill whose concave womb reworded. A plaintful story from a sist'ring vale"
Now is the winter of our discontent.
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The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest and Macbeth in that order.
In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the plot lines of Oberon and Titania intertwine with those of the lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius—through the use of the magical flower that causes love mischief. Oberon, seeking to distract Titania and gain control over her, instructs Puck to apply the flower's juice to her eyes, causing her to fall in love with the first creature she sees. Simultaneously, Puck's interference with the lovers' affections results in a series of comedic misunderstandings and romantic entanglements. Ultimately, the resolution of both plot lines coincides during the play's reconciliation, highlighting the themes of love’s complexities and the influence of magic.
The actors who needed to learn their lines. And even they didn't have to read the whole play, just the part they were in. More recently, schoolchildren have to read the plays as part of their English Language courses.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
juliretdaesgqriff does.
From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale
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The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest and Macbeth in that order.
"A pair of star-crossed lovers . . . do with their deaths bury their parents' strife." Oddly enough, the answer to your question is in the first 14 lines of the play.
Some famous lines from Shakespeare's plays that are still commonly used today include "To be, or not to be: that is the question" from Hamlet, "All the world's a stage" from As You Like It, and "To thine own self be true" from Hamlet.
The actors who needed to learn their lines. And even they didn't have to read the whole play, just the part they were in. More recently, schoolchildren have to read the plays as part of their English Language courses.
The poet uses an ABAB rhyme scheme in the first 8 lines of the poem. This means that the first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth lines.
The first 8 lines of a sonnet are called the octet.
The 'head' command will list out certain number of lines in a file from the beginning. The standard is to list the first 25 lines, but you can change that: head -100 myfile will list out the first 100 lines of myfile.
The command to return the first few lines of a given file in a Unix-like operating system is head. By default, it displays the first 10 lines of the specified file, but you can customize the number of lines by using the -n option, such as head -n 5 filename.txt to show the first five lines.