William Shakespeare left Stratford-upon-Avon for London and became an actor, playwright and part owner of his company and its theatre, the Globe. Writing for crowds who stood in the yard and heckled, he produced around 37 plays and over 150 sonnets, from Hamlet and Macbeth to Romeo and Juliet. He gave English hundreds of words and phrases we still use. Four hundred years on, his plays are performed somewhere in the world every day.
★ LEADER
COLLECTION C003 · NO. 016
★ COLLECTION LEADER
William Shakespeare
Playwright & Poet
EXTRA-ORDINARY TRAIT
CREATIVITY
JFDI PILLAR
I — INSTINCT
COUNTRY & REGION
England (UK & Ireland)
LIFESPAN
1564 – 1616
GENDER
Man
EDITION
No.016
✦ DEFINING MOMENT
On stage at the Globe mid performance, actors around him, the yard packed with groundlings looking up.
✦ ARCHIVAL DOSSIER
The Story
✦ VERIFIED QUOTE
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be." Hamlet, verified)”
✦ DID YOU KNOW?
Words first recorded in his plays include "lonely", "swagger" and "bedroom".
✦ YOUR TURN
What could you create if you made it for the crowd in front of you, not the critics?
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