Human · Myth · Kingdom of England
William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Playwright and poet
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Who he was
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and by the early 1590s was working in London as an actor and playwright.
A sharer in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, he wrote some 37 plays, among them Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, and 154 sonnets. He retired to Stratford, where he died in 1616. The First Folio of his plays came out in 1623.
Sources: Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World (2004) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, “William Shakespeare”
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