All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon. Father John was a glove maker and alderman. Mother Mary Arden came from minor gentry -- she brought the land, he brought the craft. I wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and invented roughly 1,700 words in the English language. Assassination. Eyeball. Lonely. Manager. You're welcome. I was an actor, a playwright, a shareholder in the Globe Theatre, and a businessman. I bought the second-largest house in Stratford with my theatre money. The conspiracy theorists say I didn't write the plays because a glove maker's son from the countryside couldn't be a genius. They're snobs. Genius doesn't need a pedigree. It needs a stage.
Playwriting
Art · 25y
Acting
Art · 25y
Poetry
Art · 30y
Theatre Management
Other · 20y
Inventing Words
Other · 25y
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Stratford-upon-Avon, GB
Exported from La Piazza · 2026-05-12