Post your favourite Shakespeare sonnet. If you can't name that, then you don't belong on /lit/. For me it's sonnet 129:

Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight,
Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so,
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.


>inb4 sonnets 18 or 29
Be more original.

>read people on /lit/ claim, argue, and defend that Shakespeare was an illiterate plebeian
>read the first two acts of Titus Andronicus, one of his earliest plays
>direct reference to Hecuba from Euripides
>direct reference to Ajax from Sophocles
>direct reference to book 4 of The Aeneid
>constant references to Ovid's Metamorphoses
>probably some references to Seneca
>probably some references that I didn't get
Why do you niggas lie so much? Is the meme worth ruining a legend's image?
Anyways, Shakespeare thread.