William Shakespeare

illiam Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world pre-eminent playwright. It is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His works include 38 plays, [b] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into all major languages, and are made more often than any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At age 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who brought three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a brilliant career in London as an actor, writer and part owner plays the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He seems to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few documents Shakespeare privacy survive, and there has been speculation on issues like sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare products best known for his work between 1590 and 1613. His early works were mostly comedies and histories, genres, it is brought to the edge of sophistication and art by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly about tragedies until 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, examined some of the finest examples in the English language. In its last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and has worked with other playwrights. Many of his pieces were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy of his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former colleagues theatre issued the first in-folio, an edition of his dramatic works, in particular, but all both games now recognized as Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his time, but his reputation is not at its height until the nineteenth century. The romantic, in particular, hailed the genius of Shakespeare and Victorian hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry." [4] In the twentieth century, his work has been adopted repeatedly and rediscovered by new movements on the stock exchange and representation. His plays are still very popular today and are still performed and reinterpreted in various cultural communities and political