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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, considered the greatest writer in the English language and considered by many to be the greatest playwright in history. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". Wikipedia
Born: April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Death: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Poems: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sonnet 18, Sonnet 116, Sonnet 130, Sonnet 73, Venus and Adonis, Sonnet 12, Sonnet 43, The Rape of Lucrece, Sonnet 30, Sonnet 60, Sonnet 20, Sonnet 27, Sonnet 5, Sonnet 2 , Sonnet 3, More
Influenced by: Christopher Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Michel de Montaigne, Seneca, Virgil, Ovid, Plutarch, Plautus, Terence, Lucian of Samosata, More