Google is celebrating William Shakepeare on his possible birthday (or at least death), http://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-william-shakespeare.
Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Midsummer's Night Dream, Richard III - did I get them right?
If music be the food of love, play on,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
That strain again, it had a dying fall.
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more,
’Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
[Music ceases]
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there,
Of what validity and pitch so e’er,
But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.
(I.i.1–15), Twelfth Night
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