William Shakespeare

English · 1564–1616

English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His surviving works include 39 plays and 154 sonnets, spanning tragedy (Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello), comedy (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night), and history (Henry V, Richard III). His influence on English vocabulary, idiom, and dramatic form is unmatched, and his plays remain staples of the global theatrical repertoire 400 years after his death.

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