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.

Specialist acting companies and theatres

• Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
• Globe Theatre in London, UK
• John Bell's Bell Shakespeare Company in Australia
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, USA
• Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah, USA
• Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, Colorado, USA
• The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, USA
• Shakespeare by the Sea, various companies of this name in Canada and the US
• Actors Shakespeare Company in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
• Austin Shakespeare Festival in Austin, Texas, USA
• Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Alabama, USA
• Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
• Shakespeare Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California, USA
• The Actors' Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, USA
• Shenandoah Shakespeare, in Staunton, Virginia, USA (which has built a reconstruction of the Blackfriars Theatre)
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, GA, USA
• Shakespeare and Company, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
• The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, in Madison, New Jersey, USA
• Shakespeare and Company, in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
• Young Shakespeare Players Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
• Shakespeare 4 Kidz England