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English poet, playwright and actor,

actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men

1613 at age 49, where he died three years later.

twins Hamnet and Judith.

Between 1585 and 1592

1589 and 1613.

He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century.

the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter

solemn and copious,