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And all the men and women merely players."** -//As You Like It (II, vii, 139-140)//
 * "All the world's a stage,

__William Shakespeare__
William Shakespeare was an English poet regarded as the greatest writer of the English language. He is the most quoted writer in literature. He is also considered to be England’s national poet. He wrote tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances, which have been translated into every major language and are performed around the world. There is some speculation to whether Shakespeare wrote all his plays himself. It is likely that in the theatre the play would have been rewritten many times and some of the words might be from the actors themselves or others watching a rehearsal.

=Shakespeare Gone Black= English poet and actor, considered by many to be the great of all time. Some of Shakespeare's plays, such as //Hamlet// and //Romeo and Juliet//, are among the most famous literary works of the world. However, his early works did not match the artistic quality of Marlowe's dramas. Ben Jonson (1572-1637), another contemporary playwright, wrote that Shakespeare's "wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too". Shakespeare possessed a large vocabulary for his day, having used 29,066 different words in one day. Today the average English-speaking person uses something like 2,000 words in everyday speech. = = =__Comedies__= [|All's Well That Ends Well] [|As You Like It] [|The Comedy of Errors] [|Love's Labours Lost] [|Measure for Measure] [|The Merry Wives of Windsor] [|The Merchant of Venice] The Tempest Twelfth Night [|Two Gentlemen at Verona] [|Taming of the Shrew] [|A Midsummer Night's Dream] [|Much Ado About Nothing] [|Winter's Tale]

=__Histories__= //[|Cymbeline] [|King Henry IV, Part I,] [|King Henry IV part 2,]// //[|King Henry V] [|King Henry VI, Part One] [|King Henry VI, Part Two] [|King Henry VI, Part Three,]// //[|King Henry VIII]// //[|Pericles] [|King John]// //[|King Richard II] [|Richard 3]//

=__Tragedies__= //[|Antony and Cleopatra]// [|Coriolanus] //[|Hamlet]// //[|Julius Caesar]// //[|King Lear]// Macbeth //[|Othello]// //[|Romeo and Juliet]// [|Timon of Athens] //[|Titus Andronicus]// [|Troilus and Cressida]

=__Apocryphal Plays__= //[|Iocrine] [|The London Prodigal] [|The Purtain] [|1 Sir John Oldcastle] [|Thomas Lord Cronwell] [|Yorkshire Tragedy]// =Shakespeare /Actors=