# William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare worked in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England as an actor, shareholder, playwright, and poet associated with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and King’s Men. His plays and poems transformed dramatic language, genre, characterization, political imagination, and the commercial possibilities of the public theatre.

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