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Historical painted portraitChandos portrait; public domain · Public domain

William Shakespeare

English playwright, actor and poet whose dramatic characters speak from particular circumstances. Read the anthology’s lines with their speakers and scenes, rather than as a single collection of personal maxims.

1564 AD – 1616 AD · 2,660 collected ↗