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* VillainProtagonist/ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: {{Macbeth}}.
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* BadassBeard\\
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man;" (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man;" (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
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* BadassBeard\\
"HeBadassBeard:
-->"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man;" (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
"He
-->"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man;" (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
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* FatalFlaw\\
"So, oft it chances in particular men,\\
"So, oft it chances in particular men,\\
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* FatalFlaw\\
"So,FatalFlaw:
-->"So, oft it chances in particular men,\\
"So,
-->"So, oft it chances in particular men,\\
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* ForegoneConclusion\\
Shakespeare coined the phrase, although he used it to mean the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] and it got {{trope decay}}ed ("foregone" means "averted" [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even today]]): "But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be [[AllJustADream but a dream]]." (''Theatre/{{Othello}}'')
* TheGrotesque\\
'''Richard:''' ''Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time\\
Shakespeare coined the phrase, although he used it to mean the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] and it got {{trope decay}}ed ("foregone" means "averted" [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even today]]): "But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be [[AllJustADream but a dream]]." (''Theatre/{{Othello}}'')
* TheGrotesque\\
'''Richard:''' ''Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time\\
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* ForegoneConclusion\\
ForegoneConclusion: Shakespeare coined the phrase, although he used it to mean the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] and it got {{trope decay}}ed ("foregone" means "averted" [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even today]]): "But today]]).
-->"But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be [[AllJustADream but a dream]]." (''Theatre/{{Othello}}'')
*TheGrotesque\\
'''Richard:'''TheGrotesque:
-->'''Richard:''' ''Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time\\
-->"But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be [[AllJustADream but a dream]]." (''Theatre/{{Othello}}'')
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'''Richard:'''
-->'''Richard:''' ''Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time\\
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* {{MST3K Mantra}}\\
"Do not infest your mind with beating on\\
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* ManlyTears: Lampshaded by Macduff in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
-->'''Macduff''': [[DespairEventHorizon All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?]]\\
'''Malcolm''': Dispute it like a man!\\
'''Macduff''': I shall do so; but I must also ''feel'' it as a man!
* {{MST3KMantra}}\\
"DoMantra}}:
-->"Do not infest your mind with beating on\\
-->'''Macduff''': [[DespairEventHorizon All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?]]\\
'''Malcolm''': Dispute it like a man!\\
'''Macduff''': I shall do so; but I must also ''feel'' it as a man!
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* OutDamnedSpot\\
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
* RefugeInAudacity\\
'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended\\
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
* RefugeInAudacity\\
'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended\\
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* OutDamnedSpot\\
"Out,OutDamnedSpot:
-->"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
*RefugeInAudacity\\
'''Puck:'''RefugeInAudacity:
-->'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended\\
"Out,
-->"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
*
'''Puck:'''
-->'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended\\
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* SeenItAMillionTimes\\
"How many times shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er? In states unborn and accents yet unknown". (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'')
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* SeenItAMillionTimes\\
"HowSeenItAMillionTimes:
-->"How many times shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er? In states unborn and accents yet unknown". (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'')
"How
-->"How many times shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er? In states unborn and accents yet unknown". (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'')
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* ShutUpKiss\\
"Peace, I will stop your mouth." (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
"Peace, I will stop your mouth." (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
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* ShutUpKiss\\
"Peace,ShutUpKiss:
-->"Peace, I will stop your mouth." (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
"Peace,
-->"Peace, I will stop your mouth." (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
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* YourMom [[note]]Yes, Shakespeare [[DoubleEntendre did your mom first.]][[/note]]\\
'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''\\
'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''\\
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* YourMom [[note]]Yes, Shakespeare [[DoubleEntendre did your mom first.]][[/note]]\\
'''Demetrius:''']][[/note]]:
-->'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''\\
'''Demetrius:'''
-->'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''\\
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For virtually all other professions, an appropriate substitution would be 'Da Vinci did it first'. Seriously, look the guy up. He did just about everything you can do except being an accomplished author or famous rock star, and that was just because getting a decent scribe to take down his lengthy fictional masterpieces for him would have been quite expensive in 15th-Century Italy.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Benedick and Beatrice from ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Benedick and Beatrice of ''Much Ado About Nothing''.
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Dedicated in memory of TV Tropes founder William Shakespeare, who started every page on this site.
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* EyeScream: "Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?"(''KingLear'')
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* EyeScream: "Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?"(''KingLear'')now?"(''Theatre/KingLear'')
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* NaughtyNuns in ''MeasureForMeasure''''Theatre/MeasureForMeasure''
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* WallBangHer: This exchange the beginning of ''RomeoAndJuliet'':
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* WallBangHer: This exchange at the beginning of ''RomeoAndJuliet'':
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--> '''Sampson''': A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
--> '''Gregory''': That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.
--> '''Sampson''': 'Tis true, and therefore women being the weaker vessels are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and ''thrust his maids to the wall''.
--> '''Sampson''': A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
--> '''Gregory''': That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.
--> '''Sampson''': 'Tis true, and therefore women being the weaker vessels are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and ''thrust his maids to the wall''.
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* [[MilkingTheGiantCow Hamming It Up]]
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* [[MilkingTheGiantCow Hamming It Up]]Up]]\\
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Give me your hands, if we be friends\\
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] Give me your hands, if we be friends\\
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* TheGrotesque\\
'''Richard:''' ''Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time\\
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,\\
And that so lamely and unfashionable\\
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them—\\
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,\\
Have no delight to pass away the time,\\
Unless to see my shadow in the sun\\
And descant on mine own deformity.'' (''Theatre/RichardIII'')
* [[MilkingTheGiantCow Hamming ItUp]]\\Up]]
'''Richard:''' ''Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time\\
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,\\
And that so lamely and unfashionable\\
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them—\\
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,\\
Have no delight to pass away the time,\\
Unless to see my shadow in the sun\\
And descant on mine own deformity.'' (''Theatre/RichardIII'')
* [[MilkingTheGiantCow Hamming It
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* EyeScream: "Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?"
(''KingLear'')
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(''KingLear'')now?"(''KingLear'')
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Julius Caesar discusses Cassius in such terms.\\
--> Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;\\
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...\\
Such men as he be never at heart's ease\\
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
--> Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;\\
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...\\
Such men as he be never at heart's ease\\
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Julius Caesar discusses Cassius in such terms.\\
Cassius:
--> Yond Cassius has a lean and hungrylook;\\
look;
--> He thinks too much; such men aredangerous...\\
dangerous[...]
--> Such men as he be never at heart'sease\\
ease
--> Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
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--> He thinks too much; such men are
--> Such men as he be never at heart's
--> Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;\\
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...\\
Such men as he be never at heart's ease\\
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...\\
Such men as he be never at heart's ease\\
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
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--> Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;\\
--> He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...\\
--> Such men as he be never at heart's ease\\
--> Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
--> He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...\\
--> Such men as he be never at heart's ease\\
--> Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Julius Caesar discusses Cassius in such terms.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Julius Caesar discusses Cassius in such terms.
terms.\\
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungrylook;
look;\\
He thinks too much; such men aredangerous...
dangerous...\\
Such men as he be never at heart'seaseease\\
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry
He thinks too much; such men are
Such men as he be never at heart's
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
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He thinks too much; such men are dangerous...
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
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* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Prospero in ''Theatre/TheTempest'' boasts about being able to make dead people walk:
-->''...graves at my command''\\
''Have waked their sleepers, oped and let 'em forth''\\
''By my so potent art.''
-->''...graves at my command''\\
''Have waked their sleepers, oped and let 'em forth''\\
''By my so potent art.''
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Shakespeare was not only the first to use many a trope, but the first troper. That is, the first to comment on it. Some examples:
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Shakespeare was not only the first to use many a trope, but the first troper. That is, the first to [[LampshadeHanging comment on it.it]]. Some examples:
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* ShutUpKiss\\
"Peace, I will stop your mouth." (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
"Peace, I will stop your mouth." (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
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'''[[center:{{Shakespeare}} Did It First!]]'''
He may not have been the TropeMaker or even the UrExample, but you can bet your bottom dollar that he did it before ''you!'' Whatever great invention, character or plot device you come up with, Shakespeare is always the guy who has already done it and done it better than you could ever hope to. Note that he wasn't the ''first'' to use a lot of these conventions, however he's ''the'' earliest writer most people know who used ''so many'' of them.
His fans have been aware of this long before the Internet. Horace Walpole, widely recognized as the inventor of the GothicHorror genre, proudly admitted he borrowed most of the ingredients for the Gothic recipe from his idol.
Shakespeare was not only the first to use many a trope, but the first troper. That is, the first to comment on it. Some examples:
* BadassBeard\\
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man;" (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
* FatalFlaw\\
"So, oft it chances in particular men,\\
That for some vicious mole of nature in them...\\
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,\\
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,\\
Their virtues else ? be they as pure as grace,\\
As infinite as man may undergo ?\\
Shall in the general censure take corruption\\
From that particular fault." (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'')
* ForegoneConclusion\\
Shakespeare coined the phrase, although he used it to mean the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] and it got {{trope decay}}ed ("foregone" means "averted" [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even today]]): "But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be [[AllJustADream but a dream]]." (''Theatre/{{Othello}}'')
* [[MilkingTheGiantCow Hamming It Up]]\\
"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hands, but suit the action to the word, the word to the action." (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'')
* LampshadeHanging\\
"If this were acted upon the stage I would condemn it as an improbable fiction." (''Theatre/TwelfthNight'')
* {{MST3K Mantra}}\\
"Do not infest your mind with beating on\\
The strangeness of this business\\
(''Theatre/TheTempest'')
* NaughtyNuns in Measure for Measure
* OutDamnedSpot\\
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
* RefugeInAudacity\\
'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended\\
Think but this, and all is mended\\
That you have but slumbered here\\
While these visions did appear\\
And this weak and idle theme,\\
no more yielding, but a dream\\
take my hand, if we be friends\\
and Robin shall restore amends''' (''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'')
* SeenItAMillionTimes\\
"How many times shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er? In states unborn and accents yet unknown". (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'')
* ShowWithinAShow: Many times.
* YourMom [[hottip:*:Yes, Shakespeare [[DoubleEntendre did your mom first.]]\\
'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''\\
'''Aaron:''' ''That which thou canst not undo.''\\
'''Chiron:''' ''Thou hast undone our mother.''\\
'''Aaron:''' ''Villain, I have ''done'' thy mother.'' (''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'')\\
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'''Painter:''' ''Y'are a dog.''\\
'''Apemantus:''' ''Thy mother's of my generation. What's she, if I be a dog?'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'')
Quite possibly the ultimate proof of the truth of this law: Shakespeare has an example of a SockPuppet in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''. Yes, a character uses a [[OnlinePersonas made-up persona]] in a play set in ancient Rome and written in Elizabethan England. It's also used as an early example of [[AstroTurf Astroturfing]].
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He may not have been the TropeMaker or even the UrExample, but you can bet your bottom dollar that he did it before ''you!'' Whatever great invention, character or plot device you come up with, Shakespeare is always the guy who has already done it and done it better than you could ever hope to. Note that he wasn't the ''first'' to use a lot of these conventions, however he's ''the'' earliest writer most people know who used ''so many'' of them.
His fans have been aware of this long before the Internet. Horace Walpole, widely recognized as the inventor of the GothicHorror genre, proudly admitted he borrowed most of the ingredients for the Gothic recipe from his idol.
Shakespeare was not only the first to use many a trope, but the first troper. That is, the first to comment on it. Some examples:
* BadassBeard\\
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man;" (''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'')
* FatalFlaw\\
"So, oft it chances in particular men,\\
That for some vicious mole of nature in them...\\
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,\\
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,\\
Their virtues else ? be they as pure as grace,\\
As infinite as man may undergo ?\\
Shall in the general censure take corruption\\
From that particular fault." (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'')
* ForegoneConclusion\\
Shakespeare coined the phrase, although he used it to mean the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] and it got {{trope decay}}ed ("foregone" means "averted" [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even today]]): "But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be [[AllJustADream but a dream]]." (''Theatre/{{Othello}}'')
* [[MilkingTheGiantCow Hamming It Up]]\\
"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hands, but suit the action to the word, the word to the action." (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'')
* LampshadeHanging\\
"If this were acted upon the stage I would condemn it as an improbable fiction." (''Theatre/TwelfthNight'')
* {{MST3K Mantra}}\\
"Do not infest your mind with beating on\\
The strangeness of this business\\
(''Theatre/TheTempest'')
* NaughtyNuns in Measure for Measure
* OutDamnedSpot\\
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
* RefugeInAudacity\\
'''Puck:''' ''If we shadows have offended\\
Think but this, and all is mended\\
That you have but slumbered here\\
While these visions did appear\\
And this weak and idle theme,\\
no more yielding, but a dream\\
take my hand, if we be friends\\
and Robin shall restore amends''' (''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'')
* SeenItAMillionTimes\\
"How many times shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er? In states unborn and accents yet unknown". (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'')
* ShowWithinAShow: Many times.
* YourMom [[hottip:*:Yes, Shakespeare [[DoubleEntendre did your mom first.]]\\
'''Demetrius:''' ''Villain, what hast thou done?''\\
'''Aaron:''' ''That which thou canst not undo.''\\
'''Chiron:''' ''Thou hast undone our mother.''\\
'''Aaron:''' ''Villain, I have ''done'' thy mother.'' (''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'')\\
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'''Painter:''' ''Y'are a dog.''\\
'''Apemantus:''' ''Thy mother's of my generation. What's she, if I be a dog?'' (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'')
Quite possibly the ultimate proof of the truth of this law: Shakespeare has an example of a SockPuppet in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''. Yes, a character uses a [[OnlinePersonas made-up persona]] in a play set in ancient Rome and written in Elizabethan England. It's also used as an early example of [[AstroTurf Astroturfing]].
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