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His play, "Macbeth" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2018 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for large Play Production.

Shakespeare willed his "second-best bed" to his wife, Anne Hathaway. Many scholars took that to be an insult, but this interpretation is incorrect. In 17th-century England, a home's best bed was reserved for guests; a husband and wife slept in the second-best one. Shakespeare's gesture was a sentimental reminder of the love he bore his wife.

His play, "The Tempest" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Large Play Production.

"A great poet, a considerable philosopher, but, by modern standards, quite a poor playwright" - as described by Tom Conti in The Times of London, 26 February, 2003.

In 1994, Charles Hamilton, a noted handwriting authority, published his edition of Shakespeare and John Fletcher's long-lost play, "Cardenio", which he believed had been masquerading as "The Second Maiden's Tragedy", an unattributed play of the time, apparently the sequel to a Fletcher collaboration with Francis Beaumont. Because the names had been altered, Hamilton's identification of the play with Cardenio has been controversial, but has not been refuted. Hamilton believed it to be in the same hand as Shakespeare's will, which he determined to match known examples of Shakespeare's handwriting, rather than having been written by a scribe. Hamilton died in 1996.

His play, "The Tempest," at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1979 Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Production.

In 1964, was the first person other than royalty to be portrayed on a British stamp.

Portrayed by Reginald Gardiner in The Story of Mankind (1957).

The most successful American revival of one of his plays was Othello, which started in 1943 and ran for 296 performances until 1946. It starred Paul Robeson as Othello, José Ferrer as Iago, and Uta Hagen as Desdemona.

There are no living decendants from him. His family line ended in 1670 with the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth Hall Nash Barnard, who bore no children.

The date of Shakespeare's death is April 23, 1616, only because Britain had not yet revised the calendar in accordance with the rest of Europe, which meant that the British calendar was ten days behind. If the calendar had been revised at that time, the date of his death would be May 3, 1616 (unlike Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Shakespeare's contemporary, who actually did pass away on April 23, 1616).

Shakespeare stood as godfather to the future Poet Laureate of England, William D'Avenant (1606-1668), and D'Avenant would later claim that that Shakespeare was his father in more than just God.

In 1599 he became a partner in the new Globe Theatre, the company of which joined the royal household on the accession of James in 1603. That is the last year in which he appeared in a cast list.

A 1598 edition of "Love's Labors" was the first to bear his name, though he was already regarded as England's greatest playwright.

In 1596 he seems to have purchased a coat of arms for his father; the same year Hamnet died at age 11. The following year he purchased the grand Stratford mansion New Place.

By December 1594 he was back in London as a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the company he stayed with the rest of his life.

By 1592 he was an established actor and playwright in London though his "career path" afterward (fugitive? butcher? soldier? actor?) is highly debated. When plague closed the London theatres for two years he apparently toured; he also wrote two long poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". He may have spent this time at the estate of the Earl of Southampton.

He is believed to have written his "Sonnets" during the 1590s.

Susanna was born in May of 1583, twins Hamnet and Judith in January of 1585.

William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an unknown financial setback, though the family home remained in his possession. An affair with Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior and a nearby farmer's daughter, led to pregnancy and a hasty marriage late in 1582.

Family records 1564-1616 show 44 surname spellings.