Henry V
1599 · 292 pages
Outnumbered in France, a young king talks his army into fighting at Agincourt, promising that whoever survives will remember the day forever. After the battle he reads out the names of the dead.
★ 7.3
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Basket of Fruit
1599 · Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
The leaves are curling and worm-eaten and the fig has burst. Caravaggio painted the rot as carefully as the ripeness and called it enough.
★ 7.3
Much Ado About Nothing
1599 · 246 pages
Beatrice and Benedick insult each other so expertly that their friends trick each into believing the other is secretly in love. Their war of words gave English comedy its model for courtship.
★ 7.2
Henry IV, Part Two
1599 · 338 pages
Falstaff ages and the king dies while Prince Hal waits for the crown. Shakespeare wrote no colder scene than the new king telling his old tavern friend that he does not know him.
★ 7.0
Julius Caesar
1599 · 288 pages
Brutus is persuaded that killing his friend will save the republic. Antony stands over the body, says he comes to bury Caesar and not to praise him, and turns Rome around.
★ 6.8
Narcissus
1599 · Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Narcissus and his reflection close into a circle around a band of black water, and nothing else exists in the picture.
★ 6.8
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.
A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599
Henry V · 1599
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599
Julius Caesar · 1599
Every Man out of His Humour · 1599
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599
Julius Caesar · 1599
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Old Fortunatus · 1599
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599