Known as βThe Bard of Avon,β William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeareβs works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeareβs innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech.
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William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three childrenβSusanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.