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William Shakespeare

Playwright and poet who turned rhetoric, theatre, and social observation into a shared language.

His works move between court and public playhouse, learned source and popular form. The First Folio of 1623 preserved plays that might otherwise have vanished.

Key facts

Language: en
Dates: 1564 to 1616
Nationality: English
Era: Renaissance
Movement: English Renaissance
Court or circle: Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Patronage: Elizabethan and Jacobean court

Available in: EN

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