The Taming of The Shrew. "This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, and thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour."
it was Macbeth.
Henry IV
Shakespeare did not use the phrase "a boiling idiot". You are probably thinking of "a blinking idiot", which comes from The Merchant of Venice.
That phrase means "lots of fuss about nothing"
No, she had an asp (poisonous snake) bite her.
The Tempest dated 1610
it was Macbeth.
Henry IV
Shakespeare did not use the phrase "a boiling idiot". You are probably thinking of "a blinking idiot", which comes from The Merchant of Venice.
The phrase "all that glisters is not gold" is found in The Merchant of Venice.
That phrase means "lots of fuss about nothing"
The quote "To be or not to be, that is the question" is found in Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
No, she had an asp (poisonous snake) bite her.
It's from Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene ii.
Julilus Caesar! it happens in the play by Shakespeare. Brutus did the dirty work.
The phrase "to rise against" was used in the play Hamletby William Shakespeare. It is in the soliloquy "to be or not to be..." It was probably used as a phrase on occasion before that, but this use made it very well known.
Actually, there is no play by Shakespeare called "A Pound of Flesh". The phrase is an important phrase in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. Originally the main characters in this play were Bassanio and Portia, but as time went on, more and more big name actors wanted to play the main character in the subplot, Shylock, to the extent that Shylock is now considered to be the main character (along with Portia). The "Merchant of Venice" himself, a character called Antonio, is not the main character of the play.