Author
William Shakespeare
An English playwright and poet whose works explore human desire, conflict, imagination, and change.
Author
An English playwright and poet whose works explore human desire, conflict, imagination, and change.
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Lovers, fairies, and amateur actors cross paths in a comedy about love, perception, and imagination.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And though she be but little, she is fierce.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact:

The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,

and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

So quick bright things come to confusion.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,