Shakespeare, William

An English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, generally considered the greatest writer in English. His plays include Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. Shakespeare also wrote more than 150 sonnets . Many familiar sayings and quotations come from his works. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon. He spent most of his career in London as an actor, playwright, and manager of the Globe Theater . His success enabled him to retire to Stratford, where he died.

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Camilla later said that she believed children should be taken to see the works of William Shakespeare performed on stage.

Othello by William Shakespeare I recognized Othello the minute I met him in 11th grade English.

O (2001) This contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was set in a modern-day high school.

The issue even provides a pithy logline: Was William Shakespeare a fraud?

William Shakespeare famously fictionalized this castle as the setting for Hamlet.

Ay, even Mr. William Shakespeare, great man as he was, could never have done justice to such beauty as that of my love.

If we can trust statues and paintings and writers, William Shakespeare had a kingly physique, light hazel eyes and auburn hair.

William Shakespeare was but eighteen and a half years of age when he married.

In January 1616, William Shakespeare instructed his solicitor to draft his will.

After wrestling we would go into the house, and he would take out a book of plays by William Shakespeare and read from it to me.

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