William Shakespeare
Born
in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
April 03, 1564
Died
April 23, 1616
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Genre
Influences
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Romeo and Juliet
9939 editions
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published
1597
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Hamlet
8636 editions
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published
1601
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Macbeth
by
7610 editions
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published
1606
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2885 editions
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published
1595
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Othello
18 editions
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published
1603
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Much Ado About Nothing
1841 editions
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published
1598
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King Lear
3839 editions
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published
1605
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The Tempest
2181 editions
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published
1611
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Julius Caesar
4 editions
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published
1599
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Twelfth Night
2964 editions
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published
1601
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Polls
September 2019 Revisit the Shelf Poll
Dune by Frank Herbert Group read Nov 2012, 1965, 687 pages, Group read Nov 2012
Middlemarch by George Eliot 1871, 904 pages, Group read Jan 2016
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 1904, 176 pages, Group read Nov 2014
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 1842, 512 pages, Group read May 2017
Othello by William Shakespeare 1603, 314 pages, Group read June 2017
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace 1880, 620 pages, Group read August 2012,
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