Reading in Depth
Read and appreciate the following lines from William Shakespeare’s plays.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
—A Midsummer Night’s Dream
All that glisters is not gold.
—A Merchant of Venice
To be or not to be: that is a question.
—Hamlet
What’s done cannot be undone.
—Macbeth
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
—Measure for Measure
Beauty, wit, high birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity are subjects all to envious and calumniating time.
—Troilus and Cressida
Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
—Romeo and Juliet
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
—Othello
Nothing will come of nothing.
—King Lear
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
—Julius Caesar
Choose your favorite line and write down your understanding about it.
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