William Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (APRIL 23RD 1564 – APRIL 23RD 1616) William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist, and actor, and maybe the greatest dramatists of all times. Shakespeare’s plays are among the world’s most famous literary works. Shakespeare became the first to appeal and to meet with full approval of a broad and mixed public. No other writer’s plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. William …

…called “The New Place”, where he lived as a country gentleman. In that house, William wrote many of his excellent plays. A number of plays were published during his lifetime, but none of the original dramatic manuscripts has survived. William Shakespeare died in April 23rd 1616, on his 52nd birthday, of unknown causes. Shakespeare wrote comedies, historical plays, tragedies and poems. In all 37 plays and 145 sonnets. By the most famous are Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.