William Shakespeare

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actor dramatist human playwright poet

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.

Aliases (3)

Shakespeare ×3
The Bard ×1
William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love ×1

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