All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players William Shakespeare as you like it act to scene seven and so true

Life often feels like a big game, doesn't it like we're putting on a show for some celestial audience

William Shakespeare said that over four centuries ago. He lived from 1564 to 1616 and man

Did that do leave a legacy behind one that has survived and influenced everything and everyone from future playwrights

Authors people who write for TV and movies and more for over four hundred years

His words continue to help all of us understand the human condition to this day to realize that while our world has improved tremendously when it comes to

Industry medicine technology and more it's changed in so many ways

We are still in a lot of ways no different from many of Shakespeare's characters

We still have ambition that gets us into trouble

Unrequited romance that emotionally leaves us gutted

We still have people we thought were our friends who betray us and on and on

Shakespeare captured the universal human experience so very well and thus his words still ring true today

And they still will a thousand years from now

Shakespeare is considered England's national poet and one of the greatest playwrights and authors of all time

Many of us probably associate Shakespeare mostly with high school memories of reading plays out loud in class and poorly written essays

We wrote the night before and most of us probably did not ever spend any time

Trying to get to know Shakespeare the man Shakespeare was a country boy in the small yet bustling town of Stratford upon Abon

He received a standard education and never attended university

He got married to the age 18 and after the birth of his twins

He disappeared from the historical records for seven long years and

Reemerged in the London theater scene is both an actor and playwright and incredibly talented superstar in the making

Soon after his reemergence Shakespeare became a shareholder in an acting company known as Lord Chamberlain

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