William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in
April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23.
The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse.
He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church,
Stratford.
A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished Professor of
English and Comparative Literature at the University of California
at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and
George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John)
and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also
general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.
Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the
Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books
include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare,
Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England
and The Illusion of Power.
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