William Shakespeare
Born
in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
February 03, 1564
Died
April 23, 1616
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Genre
Influences
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Romeo and Juliet
by
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published
1590
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150 editions
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Hamlet
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published
1601
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422 editions
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Macbeth
by
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published
1623
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7619 editions
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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published
1595
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5442 editions
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Othello
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published
1603
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4643 editions
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Much Ado About Nothing
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published
1598
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67 editions
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King Lear
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published
1605
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2496 editions
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The Tempest
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published
1611
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3977 editions
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Julius Caesar
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published
1599
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45 editions
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Twelfth Night
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published
1623
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3113 editions
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Polls
February 2016 Old School Classic Poll
1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages
1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, 160 pages
1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, 108 pages
1516, Utopia by Thomas More, 135 pages
1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
1603, Othello by William Shakespeare, 314 pages
1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages
1678, The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 324 pages
1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages
1764, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages
1853, Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 432 pages
1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, 224 pages
1788, Emmeline by Charlotte Turner Smith, 520 pages
1832, Indiana by George Sand, 278 pages
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