Shakespeare, William
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Shakespeare_by_John_Taylor,_edited.jpg
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April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon -
†May 3, 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Schriftsteller, Schauspieler
Iconography
![Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 book The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum. It features spears as a pun on the family name.[d] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William-Shakespeare_CoA_1602.jpg "Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 book The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum. It features spears as a pun on the family name.[d] (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "The reconstructed Globe Theatre on the south bank of the River Thames in London (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Pity by William Blake, 1795, is an illustration of two similes in Macbeth: "And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air."[197] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamBlakePity.jpeg "Pity by William Blake, 1795, is an illustration of two similes in Macbeth: \"And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air.\"[197] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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