THE ULTIMATE
On this day, April 23rd 1616, William Shakespeare, the Elizabethan actor, poet and playwright passed away. He was also likely born around this time in 1564 as he was baptized on April 26th that year.
Shakespeare became the foremost playwright of the Elizabethan age, with plays such as Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbaeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream - which with greater detail and complexity of the characters demonstrates his Renaissance thought. Shakespeare had a share in the Globe Theatre on the banks ofthe Thames, a reconstruction built not far away from where the original stood opened in 1997 and you can still see and visit it today. Shakespeare's influence upon literature has transcended the Tudor and Stuart period in which he lived, for as his contemporary Ben jonson said Shakespeare 'was not of an age, but for all time'
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