Name: The Phoenix and the Turtle
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Author: William Shakespeare

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SHAKESPEARE, William

The Phoenix and the Turtle

1601

Sixty-seven lines, two dead birds, and the strangest thing Shakespeare ever wrote. A phoenix and a turtledove loved each other so completely that they stopped being two, and this is…

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William Shakespeare The Phoenix and the Turtle Overview This is the shortest thing Shakespeare wrote that anybody bothers to print: sixty-seven lines, 353 words, about two minutes out loud. It is also, by a wide margin, the strangest. Two birds have died. A phoenix and a turtledove — the ‘turtle’ is a bird, not a tortoise, and it is the old short form of turtledove, the standard emblem of a mate who never takes another. They loved each other so completely that they stopped being two things, and the poem…

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Accession:FL-0314

Published:1601

Language:en

Shelved under:Poetry and Myth

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