Who is William Shakespeare?????????????? 10 points?

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.[5][d] His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry".[6] In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

His commedies, tragedies and histories: All's Well That Ends Well‡

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Love's Labour's Lost

Measure for Measure‡

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Pericles, Prince of Tyre*†

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest*

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen*†

The Winter's Tale*

Histories

Main article: Shakespearean history

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, part 1

Henry IV, part 2

Henry V

Henry VI, part 1†

Henry VI, part 2

Henry VI, part 3

Richard III

Henry VIII†

Tragedies

Main article: Shakespearean tragedy

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus

Titus Andronicus†

Timon of Athens†

Julius Caesar

Macbeth†

Hamlet

Troilus and Cressida‡

King Lear

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

Cymbeline*

Poems

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece

The Passionate Pilgrim[e]

The Phoenix and the Turtle

A Lover's Complaint

Lost plays

Love's Labour's Won

Cardenio†

Who Is Shakespeare

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Who is William Shakespeare?????????????? 10 points?

He wrote Romeo and Juliet (romeo where art thou?), King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet (to be or not to be)... You could've just googled it lol, or used the search feature on yahoo. He was born 1564-1616. Known for revenge tragedies.

Ah, but I am. 'Tis a pleasure to make thy acquaintance; my time machine is broken, and, alas, I am stuck in the 21st century, and all there is for a lost celebrity playwright in hiding to do in this dullard's age of gadgetry and sitcoms is to engage the general public through the Answers of Yahoo.

gtfo mud farmer