This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

What I'm asking is whether this is still a country where a peculiar person such as Michael Jackson can get a fair shake and be considered innocent until proven guilty … or is this just a 21st-century American barnyard where we all feel free to turn on the moonwalking rooster … and peck it to death?

Richard III by William Shakespeare

Bassam: Feeling hydrated? Never had a bath before. [shakes the water off] Lost 2 pounds in dirt alone.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

Get on the floor and dance with me,
I love the way you shake your thing especially.

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon
The author of Lear remains unshaken
Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton
What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

Eros has shaken my mind,
wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks

There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world.
Oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Richard II by William Shakespeare

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.