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William Shakespeare (view source)
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), perhaps the greatest English-language playwright of all time, is famous his great works including [[Hamlet]], [[Macbeth]] (the scottish play), [[Romeo and Juliet]], [[A Midsummer Night's Dream]] and many others
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is conventionally regarded as the greatest English-language playwright of all time. Many of his plays are required reading in many U. S. school curriculums; those taught in schools often include [[Romeo and Juliet|The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet]], [[Macbeth|The Tragedy of Macbeth]] (the scottish play), [[A Midsummer Night's Dream]] and [[Hamlet|The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]],
He is also famous for his one hundred and fifty-four [[sonnets]], short poems written in a very strict rhyme scheme. The sonnets fall into series or sequences. Most of them appear to be expressions of romantic love; some appear to be written to a married woman known in the sonnets as the "Dark Lady," some to a young man known as the "Fair Lord."