“The world's a stage, on which all men are players: they have their exits and their entrances; and each man in his time plays many parts.”

A memorable meditation on the roles people assume throughout life, often associated with but predating Shakespeare's similar formulation · Essay, An Apology for Actors

• Identity
• Life
• Theatre

“Briefly, there is neither tragedy, history, comedy, moral or pastoral, from which an infinite use cannot be gathered.”

Drama defended as a school of conduct in every genre · An Apology for Actors, 1612

• Morality
• Theatre
• Use

“I here proclaim myself ever faithful to the first, and never guilty of the second sale.”

Loyalty claimed first to the theatre company, not to reprinting for extra profit · Preface to a printed play, as commonly excerpted

• Loyalty
• Profession
• Theatre