A lot of famous Shakespeare lines are about identity
His phrases keep circling back to names, selfhood, and hidden character. What’s in a name? and to thine own self be true are still quoted because the question never goes away.Shakespeare on Identity and Appearance
He also loved the gap between appearance and reality
Shakespeare gave English lines like fair is foul and foul is fair and the clothes make the man. They suggest that what looks obvious may be misleading—or carefully staged.Shakespeare on Identity and Appearance
