WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

1 Match the two halves of the sentences to form Shakespeares famous quotes.

1. All the worlds a stage a) whats done is done.

2. Love is blind
3. Neither a borrower
4. Good night! Good night!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
5. Things without remedy should be
without regard
6. The course of true love
7. To be or not to be:
8. O Romeo, Romeo!
9. The fault, dear Brutus,
10. There is nothing either good or bad
b) but thinking makes it so.
c) and all the men and women are
merely players.
d) is not in our stars, but in
ourselves.
e) never did run smooth.
f) nor a lender be.
g) and lovers cannot see.
h) that I shall say good night till it be
morrow.
i) wherefore art thou Romeo?
j) that is the question.

What does each quote mean?

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2 Read the sonnet carefully and match the underlined expressions with their
paraphrases.
Sonnet 18

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 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; 10
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 14

____ the sun

____ you will live forever
____ everything beautiful
____ calm
____ beloved
____ making you immortal
____ the beauty that you possess
____ claim you for his own
____ your youth
____ goes behind the clouds