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| Born | 23 April 1564 |
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| Baptised | 26 April 1564 |
| Died | 23 April 1616 | Age 52 |
William Shakespeare 1564
Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England.
An English poet, playwright, and actor, regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist in the English language.
His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove maker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner from Wilmcote.
Known as the “Bard of Avon” he wrote at least 37 plays and sonnets, and established the legendary Globe theater
The Works
| Tragedies | Comedies | Histories |
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| Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus | All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's Tale | King Henry IV Part 1 King Henry IV Part 2 King Henry V King Henry VI Part 1 King Henry VI Part 2 King Henry VI Part 3 King Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III |
Pushing English
Shakespeare invented over 1700 of our common English words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising new words and coining many now-common expressions.
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