It was exclusively a Church of England handbook, produced after Henry VIII’s declaration of independence from the Roman church, in which he named himself the head of the Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer was first published in 1549, some fifteen years before Shakespeare’s birth. It is part of the marriage service in The Book of Common Prayer, where the happy couple swear that they will love each other through thick and thin, forsaking all others, and stay together until death separates them.

It is one of the most famous, and most used, phrases, still spoken frequently by young people making their marriage vows– four times in every church wedding – twice by the priest and repeated once each by the bride and the groom, or the two brides or two grooms. ‘Till death do us part’ is a phrase that does not appear in any of the plays or poems of Shakespeare, although we probably feel that it should. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.

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