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→Ideas Attributed to or Boosted by Shakespeare: four famous quotes from Hamlet
*"a pound of flesh" - from ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', it is the concept of an overly harsh penalty, too severe to enforce
*"a pound of flesh" - from ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', it is the concept of an overly harsh penalty, too severe to enforce
*[[infinity]] - viewed with disdain by intellectuals since [[ancient Greece]], except for [[Jesus]], Shakespeare promoted the concept with success
*[[infinity]] - viewed with disdain by intellectuals since [[ancient Greece]], except for [[Jesus]], Shakespeare promoted the concept with success
*Shakespeare's three completely original 7plots for his plays were "Love's Labour's Lost," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The Tempest."
===Quotes Original to Shakespeare==
*"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"<ref>Hamlet, Act I, Scene III.</ref>
*"This above all: to thine own self be true"<ref>Hamlet Act I, Scene III</ref>
*"To be, or not to be: that is the question"<ref>Hamlet Act III, Scene I</ref>
*"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"<ref>Hamlet Act III, Scene II</ref>
==Authorship controversy==
==Authorship controversy==