William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and world literature.


Statements (73)
Predicate Object
instanceOf actor
dramatist
human
playwright
poet
activeYearsEnd 1610s
activeYearsStart 1580s
baptismDate 1564-04-26
burialPlace Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
canonizedIn Western canon
causeOfDeath unknown
child Hamnet Shakespeare
Judith Quiney
Susanna Hall
countryOfBirth Kingdom of England
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
countryOfDeath Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1564-04-23
dateOfDeath 1616-04-23
employer King's Men
Lord Chamberlain's Men
ethnicGroup English
familyName Shakespeare
fieldOfWork drama
poetry
fullName William Shakespeare
genre comedy
history play
tragedy
givenName William
hasPart First Folio
influenced English literature
world literature
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Elizabethan theatre
English Renaissance
Jacobean theatre
notableWork A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnets
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale
Titus Andronicus
Twelfth Night
numberOfSonnets 154
occupation actor
playwright
poet
placeOfBirth Stratford-upon-Avon
placeOfDeath Stratford-upon-Avon
religion Church of England
residence London
Stratford-upon-Avon
sexOrGender male
spouse Anne Hathaway
style blank verse

Referenced by (93)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Charles Dickens
Harold Bloom
Henry Irving
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Keats
John Milton
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Orson Welles
Sir Walter Scott
Stephenie Meyer
Sturm und Drang ("Shakespeare")
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Tom Stoppard
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
influencedBy
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
Falling in Love with Love
Hamlet (1948 film)
Hamlet (1996 film)
Hamlet (stage performances)
Henry V (1944 film)
Ophelia
Othello (1965 film)
Othello (1995 film)
Richard III (1955 film)
Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)
Voodoo Macbeth
West Side Story
basedOnWorkBy
Ariel
Bardolph
Desdemona
Emilia (Othello character)
Iago (Shakespeare character)
Mistress Quickly
Othello
Romeo Montague
Shakespearean tragedies
Sir John Falstaff
The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap
creator
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Tempest
author
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ovid
Plutarch
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Troilus and Criseyde
Tudor chroniclers
influenced
Cassio
Peto
Roderigo
createdBy
Shakespeare quartos
William Strachey
associatedWith
Romeo + Juliet
Winter’s Tale (opera)
basedOnAuthor
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
alludesTo
Peto
appearsInWorkBy
Henry V (1989 film)
basedOn
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
basedOnWorkAuthor
Ben Jonson
contemporaryOf
Olivia
creatorOfCharacter
William Shakespeare ("Shakespeare")
familyName
Folger Shakespeare Library
focusesOn
William Shakespeare
fullName
English Renaissance
hasNotableFigure
The Mall and Literary Walk
hasStatueOf
Sidney Lee
hasWrittenBiographyOf
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
influenceOn
Sea Venture shipwreck
inspiredAuthor
Duncan I of Scotland
inspiredWorkAuthor
Viola de Lesseps
loveInterestOf
Shakespeare in Love
mainCharacter
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
mainSubject
Eastcheap, London
mentionedInWorkBy
Viola de Lesseps
museOf
Royal Shakespeare Company
namedAfter
Poets’ Corner
notableMemorial
English Renaissance drama
notablePlaywright
Thomas Gray ("The Bard")
notableWork
Voodoo Macbeth
originalAuthor
Shakespeare & Company
performsWorkBy
Mark Antony
portrayedByAuthor
First Folio of Shakespeare
primaryAuthor
Shakespeare and Company (Paris bookshop)
renamedInHonorOf
Joseph Fiennes ("William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love")
role
William Rogers
sharesGivenNameWith
Chicago Shakespeare Theater ("Shakespeare")
specialization
Representative Men
subject
Boris Pasternak
translatedWork

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