Hamlet Pillows
Description: Shakespeare - "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is". This is the iconic monologue spoken by Hamlet in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s play, where he holds the skull of Yorick, the late King’s jester. Hamlet reminisces about Yorick’s vibrant personality and physical affection, before confronting the grotesque reality of decay, which serves as a meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death for all people, regardless of status.
Description: The Darling Buds of May is a novella by British writer H. E. Bates published in 1958. It was the first of a series of five books about the Larkins, a rural family from Kent. The title of the book is a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: 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; It was later adapted into a British comedy drama television series, first broadcast between April 1991 and April 1993.
Description: Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, it is believed to have been written in the mid 1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. The plot is about a king and three lords who vow to avoid women for three years of study, only to immediately fall in love, when a French princess and her ladies arrive.
Description: Shakespeare - "All that glitters is not gold" means that shiny or attractive surface appearances can be deceptive and do not guarantee true value or quality. Shakespeare: William Shakespeare popularised the familiar phrasing in The Merchant of Venice, using the original word "glisters" instead of "glitters".
Description: Shakespeare - "All the world's a stage" is a famous monologue from William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII). "Totus mundus agit histrionem" literally translates to "the whole world acts the actor" or "all the world is a stage", and was the motto of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
