Shakespeare:  The Man, The Myth, The Legend

William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April , which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.

Shakespeare was a writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean era (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most famous legacy but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeare’s poems also remain popular to this day.