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King Lear Reading Classics of Humanities (I) Week 6 Week 8 Iris Tuan 莎士比亞 William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) an English poet and playwright 莎士比亞 Englands national poet and the Bard of Avon (or simply The Bard). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. 莎士比亞 Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of the playing company the Lord