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Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.
Shakespeare, William
Source: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII, act III, scene ii, lines 45557. Cardinal Wolsey is speaking to his servant, Cromwell.During the Watergate hearings, on June 12, 1973, Senator Sam Ervin quoted these words to Herbert Porter. ·
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Born ca. 1564 and died ca. 1616 during the Renaissance period (1450-1599). One of the greatest writers of all time, Shakespeare, the peerless poet of the Sonnets and the creator of such dramatic masterpieces as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King Lear, is a playwright of paradigmatic originality. In his discussion of the Western literary canon, critic Harold Bloom declared: "Shakespeare and Dante are the center of the Canon because they excel all other Western writer in cognitive acuity, linguistic energy, and power of invention." However, one could go a step further and suggest that Shakespeare defines the Western canon because he transcends it. If Shakespeare, as Ben Jonson declared, "was not of an age, but for all time," the great dramatist, one could argue, spoke to the ultimate concerns of humankind, regardless of period or cultural tradition.
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