William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright who has a reputation as one of the greatest of all writers in the English language and in Western literature, as well as one of the world's pre-eminent dramatists.

Notes

• {{note|crompton}} Crompton, Louis, Homosexuality and Civilization, pp. 379
• {{note|steevens}} Rollins 1:55
• {{note|coleridge}} Rollins 2:232-233
• {{note|bush}} Pequigney, pp.64
• {{note|lewis}} Lewis, p. 503
• {{note|montaigne}} Montaigne, p. 138

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