Today, April 23, is the anniversary of both the birth and death of a man considered by many to be the greatest English writer and the greatest dramatist of all time: William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare’s birthday is traditionally recorded as April 23, 1564, and he died exactly 52 years later in 1616. Shakespeare’s poetry and plays have been quoted so widely and constantly since his own time that many of his sentences and phrases have long ago passed into ubiquitous expressions. His plays have been adapted thousands of times, to be trained as a “Shakespearean” is the great éclat of English actors, and his works used to be considered absolutely necessary to every English curriculum until very recent times.
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Today, April 23, is the anniversary of both the birth and death of a man considered by many to be the greatest English writer and the greatest dramatist of all time: William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare’s birthday is traditionally recorded as April 23, 1564, and he died exactly 52 years later in 1616. Shakespeare’s poetry and plays have been quoted so widely and constantly since his own time that many of his sentences and phrases have long ago passed into ubiquitous expressions. His plays have been adapted thousands of times, to be trained as a “Shakespearean” is the great éclat of English actors, and his works used to be considered absolutely necessary to every English curriculum until very recent times.