Bekende monologen uit Shakespeares werk
Een ware schat aan bekende gevleugelde woorden vinden we in monologen uit stukken van William Shakespeare:
 "All is lost! This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me" (Antony and Cleopatra)
 "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" (As You Like It)
 "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?" (Romeo and Juliet)
 "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" (Julius Caesar)
 "Her father loved me; oft invited me" (Othello)
 "His company must do his minions grace, whilst I at home starve for a merry look" (The Comedy of Errors)
 "Is this a dagger which I see before me?" (Macbeth)
 "Life’s but a walking shadow" (Macbeth)
 "Now is the winter of our discontent" (Richard the Third)
 "Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs" (Richard the Second)
 "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Romeo and Juliet)
 "O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?" (Othello)
 "To be, or not to be" (Hamlet)
 "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (The Tempest)

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