![]() ![]() For example, the idiom, ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’ means losing something important when trying to dispose of the less important things, but the saying came from Elizabethan bath time when the baby was the last to bathe in the annual family bath. Quite often an idiom has a literal origin and eventually comes to be used metaphorically. Interestingly, it has not changed from its two first known uses in written English – first by Shakespeare, and then, a few years later by poet and novelist, Samuel Butler. ![]() ‘Break the ice’ is one of the most used idioms in the English language. 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. ![]()
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