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Shakespeare's Plays (table)
(Encyclopedia) Shakespeare's Plays(arranged by approximate date of composition) Play Approximate date of composition Date of first publication Sources Major characters Genre Henry VI, Part II…Part III. Letters of Cato
AbstractAnother early series of articles criticizing the proposed Constitution were published in the New York Journal under the pseudonym "Cato", in honor of the Roman defender of republican…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Note on Poems Of 1816, By Mrs. Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment of a Ghost StoryNote on Poems Of 1816, By Mrs. Shelley Shelley wrote little during this year. The poem entitled "The Sunset" was written in the spring of…biography
(Encyclopedia) biography, reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography—an individual's interpretation of his own life—it shares a venerable…Brewer's: Fool or Physician at Forty
Plutarch tells us that Tiberius said “Every man is a fool or his own physician at forty.” (Treatise on the Preservation of Health.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Veni, Vidi, Vici
It was thus that Julius Caesar announced to his friend Amintius his victory at Zela, in Asia Minor, over Pharnaces, son of Mithridates, who had rendered aid to Pompey. (Plutarch.) Source…Brewer's: Physician or Fool
Plutarch, in his treatise On the Preservation of Health, tells us that Tiberius was wont to say, “A man of thirty is his own physician or a fool.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Smells of the Lamp
Said of a literary production manifestly laboured. Plutarch attributes the phrase to Pytheas the orator, who said, “The orations of Demosthenes smell of the lamp,” alluding to the current…Brewer's: King of Painters
A title assumed by Parrhasios, the painter, a contemporary of Zeuxis. Plutarch says he wore a purple robe and a golden crown. (Flourished 400 B.C.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Ismenias
A Theban musician of whom Atheas, King of the Scythians, declared, “I liked the music of Ismenias better than the braying of an ass.” (Plutarch.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Trending
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