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William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616) 
A poet and playwright William Shakespeare is the favorite author of millions of readers all over 
the world. No other writer’s plays have been produced so often and read so widely in so many 
different countries. He had a greater influence on the world literature than any other author. 
William Shakespeare was born in 1564, on April 23 in Stratford-on-Avon, in England. His 
father, John Shakespeare, was a prosperous glove maker of Stratford 
who, after holding miner municipal offices, was elected high bailiff 
(the equivalent of mayor) of Stratford. Shakespeare’s mother, Mary 
Arden, came from a family of landowners. 
In his childhood Shakespeare attended the Stratford Grammar 
School. 
Shakespeare’s contemporaries first admired him for his long 
narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” (1593) and “The Rape of 
Lucrece” (1594).
In 1599 the best-known of Elizabethan theatres, the Globe, 
was built and Shakespeare became a leading shareholder and the 
principal playwright to the theatre company. He was also an actor, 
but not a first-rate one: the parts he played were the old servant Adam in “As You like It” and the 
Ghost in “Hamlet”.
In 1613, after the Globe had been destroyed by fire during a performance of “Henry VIII” he 
retired and stopped writing. By then he was very ill. He died on April 23, 1616 and was buried in 
the Holy Trinity church in Stratford where he was christened. 
Although some of Shakespeare’s plays were published during his life-time, not until his 
death was any attempt made to collect them in a single volume. The first edition of Shakespeare’s 
collected plays appeared in 1623.
Shakespeare’s works are truly immortal, and will retain their immortality as long as the 
human race exists. He is a true classic; every new generation finds something new and unperceived 
in his works. His popularity all over the world grows from year to year.