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That time of year thou may'st in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,รน
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

      — Sonnet XXIII

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "black"

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  • black occurs 174 times in 199 speeches within 41 works.
  • Possibly related words: blackness, blacks
  • Users have searched 10,003 times for black in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which black appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains black more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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All's Well That Ends Well (4)
Antony and Cleopatra (3)
As You Like It (4)
Comedy of Errors (1)
Coriolanus (1)
Cymbeline (1)
Hamlet (8)
Henry IV, Part I (2)
Henry IV, Part II (3)
Henry V (8)
Henry VI, Part I (5)
Henry VI, Part II (5)
Henry VI, Part III (5)
Henry VIII (5)
Julius Caesar (1)
King John (5)
King Lear (5)
Lover's Complaint (1)
Love's Labour's Lost (9)
Macbeth (8)
Measure for Measure (1)
Merchant of Venice (1)
Merry Wives of Windsor (4)
Midsummer Night's Dream (5)
Much Ado about Nothing (2)
Othello (10)
Passionate Pilgrim (1)
Pericles (4)
Rape of Lucrece (15)
Richard II (6)
Richard III (8)
Romeo and Juliet (9)
Sonnets (9)
Tempest (1)
Timon of Athens (3)
Titus Andronicus (13)
Troilus and Cressida (4)
Twelfth Night (4)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (7)
Venus and Adonis (4)
Winter's Tale (4)

 

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