“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.” To which of Shakespeare’s characters femme fatale’s do you look for this quote?
Shakespeare could be a real Debbie Downer: “Life,” he wrote, “is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Ouch! Way to have a go at life, Willy. He’s no more generous when he turns his attention to beauty: “Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when first it ‘gins to bud, a brittle glass that’s broken presently”.