Shakespeare Phrases & Sites

 

Places for travellers to visit, connected with Shakespeare

1 London

Theatre in the Round

Church with bust of Shakespeare inside

Bust of Shakespeare outside Guildhall

2 Stratford upon Avon, England

Shakepeare's birthplace museum

Anne Hathaway's Cottage (she was his wife)

Theatre in Avon

3 Canada Niagara on the lake Shakespeare season

To put you in the mood, here are some of the Shakespearean phrases you are probably familiar with. You either quote them often or hear them quoted often, or both.

• List of works titled after Shakespeare
• Phrases from Hamlet in common English

A

• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• All that glitters is not gold
• All the world's a stage

B

• Band of brothers
• Be all my sins remember'd (quote)
• Beast with two backs
• Between you and I
• Brave new world
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• By the pricking of my thumbs

C

• Cold Comfort

D

• The dogs of war (phrase)
• Double, double, toil and trouble (quote)

E

• Et tu, Brute?
• Even a worm will turn

F

• Frailty, thy name is woman
• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

H

• Hoist with his own petard
• Honorificabilitudinitatibus
• A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

I

• Ides of March
• If you prick us, do we not bleed?
• Is this a dagger which I see before me?
• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing

L

• The lady doth protest too much, methinks
• Let's kill all the lawyers
• Lord, what fools these mortals be!

M

• Mortal coil
• Much Ado About Nothing (title)

O

• Once more unto the breach

Q

• The quality of mercy

R

• The rest is silence (quote)
• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?
• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

S

• Salad days
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
• Sleep No More
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• Something wicked this way comes (phrase)
• Star-crossed

T

• Thy name is
• To be, or not to be
• Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

W

• What a piece of work is a man
• What dreams may come...
• What's past is prologue
• Willy-nilly (idiom)
• Winter of Discontent

Y

• You Banbury cheese!

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See my later post about Shakespeare, April 23 2025.

Shakespeare's Schoolroom For You In Stratford, UK and Canada

Hard to believe, isn't it, that Shakespeare's schoolroom has been in use since he was there and that it is still a school today and that after school visitors can go there.

He was there in the 1570s.

1 You can dress up in Tudor costume and take a selfie.
2 Meet actors in Elizabethan costume
3 Use a quill and ink
3 Brush up your Latin
4 Admire medieval wall paintings

Open daily 10-5
From 11 am weekdays during school term time
Last admission 4.30 pm.
Accessible toilet and lift.
Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall
Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6HB
Tel:01789 203170

More Information From
www.ShakespearesSchoolroom.org

Also in Stratford see:
* Shakespeare's Birthplace
* Theatre performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company
* Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Look for combined tickets.
http://www.visitstratforduponavon.co.uk

In London places connected with Shakespeare include:
* Shakespeare's Globe (A theatre in the round)
* Shakespeare's memorial in church/cathedral
Stratford in London is NOT Stratford upon Avon which is Warwickshire.
Shakespeare's Globe
21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT
Tel:+44(0)20 7902 1400 (enquiries)


In Canada you can see Shakespeare plays at their Stratford Festival, where they have five theatres.
https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/ThePlays/

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer