William Shakespeare was one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the english language, but his writing is riddled with questions. The most famous one is probably "To be or not to be", as formulated by Hamlet (written around 1600).
Shakespeare wrote a total of 16 comedies, 10 history plays and 12 tragedies. Some of the best known plays are of course Romeo and Julia, Macbeth, Othello, Much ado about nothing and A Midsummer nights dream.
William Shakespeare also wrote 154 sonnets, a strict form of poetry with 14 lines and well defined rules for the rhyming.
Here is a sonnet (number 142) about hide and seek (and love and hate)
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O! but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robbed others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that, when it grows,
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied
Much is still unknown about Shakespeare and some even doubt he wrote any of the poems and plays attributed to him. Some of the lesser known candidates for alternative authors are Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere and William Stanley. Some think that Shakespeares poetry and plays include hidden messages revealing the true author.
Note! A domain used for this mystery has lapsed. If you find a link to "geocaching.servepics.com/*" replace it with "lillfiluren.se/gc/*"
Thanks to lassethomasson for betatesting and finding all (?) the bugs
2016-12-04: Cache container moved a small distance. Mystery unchanged. If your coordinate ends with "4", please adjust -0.022N and +0.002E