William Shakespeare

On April 23 at Satratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire a great playwright William Shakespeare was born. He died at the age of 52 and was buried in a fine old Parish Church at Stratford.
One his grave one can see the following inscription:

Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare: Blese be ye man yt spares thes stones, And curst be he yt moves my bones.  (Medieval English spelling is preserved)

Добрый друг! Христа ради Не беспокой прах, который заключен здесь. Благословен будь, кто пощадит эти камни, Проклят будь, кто пошевелит мои кости.

Do you know that:

• ...William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died on this date, April 23, 1616?
• ...John Shakespeare, the great playwright’s father, couldn’t write?
• ...William Shakespeare travelled up to London on foot without much money because he wanted to become an actor?
• ...William Shakespeare worked in London holding horses of those Londoners who came to see the plays at the theatre?
• The signatures of the greatest English men and women cover the wall and the ceiling of the room in which William Shakespeare was born?

Famous quotations from Shakespeare:

• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark( Hamlet)
• To be or not to be?
  That is the question. (Hamlet)
• Wake not a sleeping wolf (King Henry IV)
• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit (Twelfth Night)
• Cowards may die many times before their deaths(Julius Caesar)

Sonnet 91