On this day in 1564, William Shakespeare, the greatest English writer in history, was born. His words lived on until many of them became the most recognized phrases in the English language, while the greatest actors and producers still long to portray his characters on the screen or on stage.
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Shakespeare, the son of a tradesman/bailiff, did not receive a university education, and he was reportedly once arrested for poaching (a story America’s own Washington Irving delighted in relating). Elitists of both our day and his day looked down upon him. But the undereducated tradesman’s son was such a genius that he became one of the, if not the, most quoted author in the English language, and justly so; his characters leap
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