

‘Who does i’ the wars more than his captain canĪntony and Cleopatra 8. ‘Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave! ‘Each Trojan that is master of his heart, Let him to field Troilus, alas! hath none.’ ‘War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.’ ‘We must have bloody noses and crack’d crowns,Īnd pass them current too. Or close the wall up with our English dead.’ ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

Shakespeare’s references to war are among the most quoted phrases in our culture. English history is to a large extent the history of war, and therefore one of the main subjects for writers to write about. Although in the modern world we try to avoid war, Shakespeare recognised the fact that war is one of the great human themes, along with love and death ( read more about themes in Shakespeare’s plays). This page lists 50 Shakespeare quotes about war. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
