William Shakespeare

**William Shakespeare**
	English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
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Name in native language	William Shakespeare (ˈwɪljəm ˈʃeɪkspɪə, spelling of William Shakespeare's name);
Date of birth	April 1564; Stratford-upon-Avon (Kingdom of England)
Date of death	23 April 1616 (in Julian calendar) (unspecified calendar, assumed Julian); Stratford-upon-Avon (Kingdom of England)
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	unknown value;
Place of burial	Holy Trinity Church;
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of England;
Residence	Stratford-upon-Avon (1564–1616);
Educated at	King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon;
Occupation	playwright;
Field of work	fiction; theatre; English drama; drama; poetry; acting;
Native language	Early Modern English;
Father	John Shakespeare;
Mother	Mary Shakespeare;
Sibling	Joan Shakespeare; Edmund Shakespeare; Gilbert Shakespeare; Richard Shakespeare; Anne Shakespeare; Margaret Shakespeare; Joan Shakespeare;
Child	Susanna Hall; Hamnet Shakespeare; Judith Quiney;
Spouse	Anne Hathaway (1582 – 1616 (in Julian calendar));
Notable work	Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Shakespeare's sonnets; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 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; Love's Labour's Lost; The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night; All's Well That Ends Well; Measure for Measure; Titus Andronicus; Julius Caesar; Othello; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; …;
Present in work	Star Trek: The Original Series Core Game Book;
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Portraits and memorials

The Chandos Portrait of William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor
Engraved portrait of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623
Shakespeare's funerary monument by Gerard Johnson, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Engraving depicting a sculptural group by Thomas Banks, Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry (circa 1789
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)
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, with the memorial to Shakespeare (1740) by Peter Scheemakers and William Kent
Statue of Shakespeae (1872) in Central Park, New York, by John Quincy Adams Ward
Statue of Shakespeare (1874) in Leicester Square, London, by Giovanni Fontana, after Scheemakers

Plays

Hamlet and Horatio before the Gravediggers (circa 1843
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) by Eugène Delacroix
Ophelia (circa 1851
date QS:P,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
) by Sir John Everett Millais
King Lear and the Fool in the Storm (circa 1851
date QS:P,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
) by William Dyce
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra (1885) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Miranda — The Tempest (1916) by John William Waterhouse

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