William Shakespeare has become the most famous and influential author in English literature. Only active as a writer for a quarter century, he wrote thirty-eight plays, one hundred fifty-four sonnets and two epic poems that reinvented and defined the English language to such a degree that his works are required study all over the world.
Very little is known about Shakespeare's early life. He was born around 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon to a middle-class merchant family and by the age of eighteen he was married with a child on the way. He would later father two more children. By 1592 he had become a successful actor and playwright in London and was famous among Londoners for the popularity of his plays.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be
William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ...
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness. ...
William Shakespeare
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
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