‘A pound of flesh’, ‘a wild goose chase’, and ‘the lady doth protest too much’ all fell from his goose feather pen. His vivid turns of phrase, meanwhile, still season our everyday speech. He explored human nature with sharp, often humorous insight. Ophelia, Macbeth, Lear, Desdemona - Shakespeare’s characters are indelible. His 37 known plays, four poems and 154 sonnets exist today in at least 80 languages, and it is estimated that, every minute of every day, someone somewhere is performing Hamlet. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time, and as England’s ‘national poet’. William Shakespeare was a playwright, poet and actor in the late 16th and early 17th centuries - England’s Elizabethan and Jacobean ages.
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