Shakespeare, William

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1. An English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, generally considered the greatest writer in English. His plays include Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. Shakespeare also wrote more than 150 sonnets. Many familiar sayings and quotations come from his works. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon. He spent most of his career in London as an actor, playwright, and manager of the Globe Theater. His success enabled him to retire to Stratford, where he died.

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Example Sentences

Rabelais, Villon, Shakespeare, William Blake, would have known one another by their speech.

From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Shadbrook, 350, 393, 394 Shadwell, Thomas, 121, 309; his opinions, 306-307 Shakespeare, William, used Harsnett, 91; allusions in Twelfth Night of, 92; his witch-lore, 243 Shalock, Anthony, 171 n.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace

Shakespeare, William, 62, 63, 65, 73, 84, 85, 140, 150, 186, 208-10, 212 n.,

From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Adams, Joseph Quincy

Shakespeare, William, 407c, 408, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546.

From The Library of William Congreve by Hodges, John Cunyus

Shakespeare, William, total number of words used by, in his plays, 267.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max