![]() ![]() ![]() His name for the face of the oppressive state of Oceana’s surveillance of the population, ‘Big Brother,’ is now a very familiar term in modern Western culture, and ‘Room 101,’ a torture chamber in Nineteen Eighty-four, commonly now refers to any place you don’t want to go to. Some of the words he coined, like ‘doublespeak’ – contradictory statements, and ‘thoughtcrime,’ have now become part of the English language. Some writers have such distinctive styles or ways of depicting the world that those characteristics have earned them recognition in words like ‘Shakespearean,’ ‘Dickensian,’ ‘Chaucerian.’ Orwell has joined that group with some of his quotes: such terms as ‘alternative facts’ are clearly Orwellian. Apart from the sharp observations and clear prose of his essays and journalistic articles, his novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are among the most influential novels of the 20th century. ‘George Orwell’ is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 1950), a widley quoted English novelist, journalist and essayist. The page includes the very best George Orwell quotes, categorised by topic. 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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