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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English playwright and shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, working in London between roughly 1590 and 1613. Wrote 39 plays and 154 sonnets that have set the working vocabulary of English literature ever since.

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Hamlet

Still the greatest drama ever written. The Folger edition is the best free annotated version online.

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