# William Shakespeare

> Four centuries gone and his lines are still the ones we quote without knowing it, his plots the skeleton of a thousand stories since. Wrote 39 plays that outlasted empires and a language that was still inventing itself.

*English playwright and poet (1564–1616)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1564
- **Died:** 1616-04-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon around 1564, married Anne Hathaway at 18, had three children, then slipped away to London sometime before 1592. There he became actor, writer, and part-owner of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later the King's Men. Between 1589 and 1613 he turned out comedies, then histories, then the tragedies—Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth—that became the measure of what English could do, closing with the late romances like The Tempest. Retired to Stratford around 1613 and died in 1616 at 52. In 1623 two actor friends published the First Folio, securing 36 plays that might otherwise have vanished, and Ben Jonson, once a rival, called him not of an age but for all time.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 93.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 40.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 19.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Global rank:** #20
- **Country rank:** #3
- **Category rank:** #3

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## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Theatre, #Poetry, #Literature, #Movies, #Early Modern Era

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