
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
This movie begins with a sonnet in the prologue, as Romeo & Juliet and its second act begins. But it's Shakespeare's sonnet number MMXIV. The film ends with a sonnet in the Epilogue as Henry V & VIII, which is Shakespeare's sonnet number MMXV. But how many sonnets did Shakespeare write? Only 154. Nevertheless, the sonnets are in Shakespeare's own words.
Prologue
MMXIV
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you will hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that Will hath fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.
Yet,if you read this line,ever think not
The hand that writ it; hath gone forever so?
Nay,I in world would never be forgot!!
Even my bones and flesh,surely,will go
back toEarth,methinks,one day,breaking cage.
Lo! Fate doth bring Will round after four hundred
and fifty years,in All the world’s stage;
Where Will is merely a player, well bred.
Thou art to be merry, happy and gay
To see what ensue in these scenes we lay.