William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare
Type:	Fire
Attacks:	"The Rape of Lucrece" Flamethrower
Habitat:	Cinnabar Island
"Shakespeare! I chooseth thou!"

William Shakespeare is like the basis of literature and everything. Iambic pentameter in all these plays (tragic, comic, and historical) and universal everything.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Plays 2.1 Tragedies 2.2 Comedies 3 Influence

Biography

W.S. was born April 23, 1564 in Statford-upon-Avon and later married Anne Hathaway. Everybody knows that. He wrote plays for the Lord Chamberlain's Men and even played Hamlet's father's ghost onstage. They performed before Queen Elizabeth I. He went on writing in plays, going through different phases of playwriting, until his death on April 23, 1616.

Plays

Bill wrote some of the best plays ever. Some of the best of the best:

Tragedies

• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello
• Julius Caesar

Comedies

• The Tempest
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Twelfth Night
• The Merchant of Venice
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• As You Like It

Influence

So, the S-man has pretty much influenced everything ever. Hundreds of movies have been based on his 39 plays. Countless common phrases are derived from his work and he even invented lots of words still in use today. Among the best-known quotes:

• "To be or not to be..." (Hamlet)
• "[Every] dog will have his day." (Hamlet)
• "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." (Romeo and Juliet)
• "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble..." (Macbeth)
• "Cry havoc, and let loose the dogs of war." (Julius Caesar)

Shakespeare has also been the source of countless titles, including:

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (The Tempest)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Macbeth)
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (Richard III)