Which play does "shall i compare thee to a summer's day" come from?

The Tempest

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Measure for Measure

The Comedy of Errors

Much Ado About Nothing

Love's Labour's Lost

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Merchant of Venice

As You Like It

The Taming of the Shrew

All's Well That Ends Well

Twelfth Night or What You Will

The Winter's Tale

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Two Noble Kinsmen

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, part 1

Henry IV, part 2

Henry V

Henry VI, part 1

Henry VI, part 2

Henry VI, part 3

Richard III

Henry VIII

Troilus and Cressida

Coriolanus

Titus Andronicus

Romeo and Juliet

Timon of Athens

Julius Caesar

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

Cymbeline



WHICH ONE?Which play does "shall i compare thee to a summer's day" come from?
It's actually not from any of his plays. This is the opening line from Shakespeare's Sonnet #18. It's actually quite good, however strange (since he is writing it to a boy...) You should read it as well as many of his other sonnets, they are lovely really.Which play does "shall i compare thee to a summer's day" come from?
As my learned friend above states it is indeed known as Sonnet 18 and not from any play



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http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/sh鈥?/a>Which play does "shall i compare thee to a summer's day" come from?
waiting for godot by bertranrd russell
None of them. It's just one of his sonnets.



Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)



Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.