Willelm Sċacaspere
Ƿillelm Sċacaspere (Nīƿenglisc: William Shakespeare; Ēastermōnaþ 1564 - 23 Ēastermōnaþ 1616) ƿæs Englisc scop and plegƿyrhta, geseƿen sƿā þæs Engliscan gereordes grietsta ƿrītere and þære ƿorulde fyrmest ƿæferstōƿcræftiga.

Oft hēt man Shakespeare Engla lēodscop, and man him nemnaþ The Bard (“Se Scop”).

His ābīdende ƿeorc onstendeþ 38 plegas, 154 sonnetas, tƿā langa leōþgiddinga, and missenlicu ōðru lēoþ. Man hæfþ āƿended his plegas in ǣlcre micelre sprǣce, and sind geplegda oftost on eall plegƿyrhtum..

Līf and Ƿeorc  

Shakespeare ƿæs geboren and ƿēox in Strætforda in Ƿæringscīre. Þā ƿæs hē 18 ǣƿnede hē Anne Haþaƿay, sēo him gebæ þrēo bearn: Susanna and getƿinas, Hamnet and Iudith.

Betƿēonum 1585 and 1592 begann hē forþgenge ƿeorclīf in Lundene sƿā plegere, ƿrītere, and healf-āgend þæs plegera gesīþscipe Þæs Hlāford-Seleþegnes Menn, æftergenemede Þæs Cyninges Menn.

Shakespeare on his reste gestāh in Strætforde ymbe 1613, þǣr forþfērde hē æfter þrim ƿintrum.

Shakespeare ƿrāt mǣst his ƿeorca betƿuht 1590 and 1613. His ǣrplegas ƿǣron mǣst drēamplegas and stǣr, mægþƿlitas þā hē āhof tō þære hiehþe of cræfte oþ þǣm ende þæs 16e gearhundredes. Nīehst ƿrāt hē mǣst tregaplegas oþþæt ymbe 1608, hƿæron ƿǣron Amleð, Lir Cyning, and Macbeoðen, þā man hogaþ sume þāra tilstumra bisena in þǣm Engliscan gereorde. In his læstum gēarum, ƿrāt hē tregadrēamplegas and ƿeorc mid ōðrum plegƿyrhtum.

Bōcƿyrtan ƿorhteden mænige on Shakespeares plega in bōcum of mislicum sƿilcnesum on his life. In 1623 tƿeȝen friend on his former ƿafungstōƿ gædelingum ƿorhteden þone Forma Folio, gesamod bōc his plega, þe hæfde eall būtan tƿēgen þāra plega, þe man tōdæg cnǣƿþ sƿā Shakespeares.

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