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.

See also

• Elizabethan theatre
• Shakespeare's contemporaries, such as Queen Elizabeth I, Edward de Vere, Edmund Spenser
• His fellow dramatists: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, John Fletcher, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, John Marston, etc.
• His godson, William Davenant, and son-in-law John Hall.
• The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC has the biggest Shakespeare collection
• Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare, named after the dramatist
• List of archaic English words and their modern equivalents
• World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium
• David Bevington
• Hinman Collator