Shakespearean phrases

The Ides of March is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major religious observances. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.

phrase said in the play Julius Caesar by the title character

soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet

winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom with union strikes demanding pay rises greater than the Labour government allowed, exacerbated by severe storms

idiom for something not understandable

phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII.

well-known saying

thumb|right|300px|The word as it appears in the first surviving edition of Shakespeare's ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (third line)

right|200px|thumb|The phrase "star-crossed lovers" was coined in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

idiom, quotation from Romeo and Juliet