Romeo and Juliet
1597 · 281 pages
At a party in Verona two teenagers from feuding families meet, marry the next day, and are gone inside a week. Everything they say to each other still sounds newly invented.
★ 8.1
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Medusa
1597 · Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Painted on a convex parade shield, so the head bulges toward you at the exact instant of the scream. A showpiece gift for the Medici.
★ 7.3
Henry IV, Part One
1597 · 274 pages
Falstaff is the greatest comic creation in English, a fat knight who lies about everything, and Prince Hal wastes his youth drinking with him while rebellion gathers against his father the king.
★ 7.2
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Love's Labour's Lost · 1597
By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.
Love's Labour's Lost · 1597
Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.
Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597