William Shakespeare Achievements, Author Biography, Trivia, and Movies

Written works by William Shakespeare

Title	Published	Genre
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1600	Comedy
Venus and Adonis	1593
The Rape of Lucrece	1594
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Lover's Complaint
Hamlet
Cymbeline
Othello
The Two Noble Kinsmen	1634
The Tempest	1623
The Taming of the Shrew	1623
Henry IV, Part 2
Richard II
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Henry V
King John	1623
Henry VI, Part 3
Love's Labour's Lost
Timon of Athens
Measure for Measure	1623	Fiction
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Richard III
Antony and Cleopatra	1623
All's Well That Ends Well	1623
The Winter's Tale	1623
Twelfth Night, or What You Will	1623
Troilus and Cressida
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It	1623
The Merchant of Venice
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Coriolanus
The Comedy of Errors
Henry VIII	1623
Henry IV, Part 1
Pericles, Prince of Tyre	1609
Romeo and Juliet	1597	Play
Macbeth
Titus Andronicus
Much Ado About Nothing	1600
Love's Labour's Won
Sir John Oldcastle
Sonnet 1	1609
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Sonnet 17
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	1608
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Title page of the First Folio, 1623. Copper engraving of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout.	The Plays of William Shakespeare. By Sir John Gilbert, 1849.
The reconstructed Globe Theatre, London.	Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost of Hamlet's Father. Henry Fuseli, 1780--5. Kunsthaus Z ric...
Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head. By Henry Fuseli, 1793--94. Folger Shakespeare Libra...	Ophelia (detail). By John Everett Millais, 1851--52. Tate Britain.
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. By William Blake, c. 1786. Tate Britain.	Pity by William Blake, 1795, Tate Britain, is an illustration of two similes in Macbeth: "And pity, ...

...O brave new world, That has such people in't!
- William Shakespeare
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
- William Shakespeare
First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
- William Shakespeare
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare

Marker	Location	Date Arrived	Date Left
A	Stratford-upon-Avon	1564	1616

Q:
What was William Shakespeare's ethnicity?
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His ethnic group was English.
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Where did William Shakespeare go to school?
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William Shakespeare studied at King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon.
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In what field of work did William Shakespeare specialize?
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William Shakespeare was an accomplished poet, playwright, writer and entrepreneur.
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Who is acknowledged for having an influence on William Shakespeare?
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Michel de Montaigne, Thomas More, Plutarch, Geoffrey Chaucer and Christopher Marlowe inspired William Shakespeare.
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Which books have been composed by writer, William Shakespeare?
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Well known titles include:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Venus and Adonis
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- A Lover's Complaint
- Hamlet
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Who was William Shakespeare related to?
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William Shakespeare's siblings were Shakespeare older sibling1, Shakespeare older sibling2, Shakespeare younger sibling1, Shakespeare younger sibling2 and Shakespeare younger sibling3.
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What religion did William Shakespeare practice?
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Church of England was William Shakespeare's chosen denomination.
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Where was William Shakespeare born?
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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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What is a memorable quote by William Shakespeare?
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Famous quotations include: "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."