William Shakespeare Biography

William Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. William Shakespeare is often called the English national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His works of William Shakespeare is alive and remembered for all time.

William Shakespeare Biography

Great English playwright and poet William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, England. Apparently he was William Shakespeare obtained a fairly basic education but do not go to college. Shakespeare married at the age of eighteen (the age of twenty-six wives).

Several years later, William Shakespeare went to London, becomes the child stage and playwright. When the age of thirty Shakespeare already showing success. And when old turned thirty-four, he has become the rich and is considered the leading British playwright. Ten years later, he was led to major works such as Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear.

Within a period of twenty years that have special meaning it Shakespeare lived in London, his wife remained in Stratford. Shakespeare died in 1616 at about 52nd birthday.

William Shakespeare Quotes

• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
• Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
• Brevity is the soul of wit.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.