Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare
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Sadly, he was not the first human to live to 450. Indeed, he never came close. He did however, during his nearly 53 short years of life, compose dozens of dramas — of which about three-dozen still survive, and of which most are not only great, but indispensable — two long-form, narrative poems, and numerous other, smaller works.
MIT has his his entire surviving body of work online here, so we recommend putting on a pot of coffee, buffing your glasses, and — if you’ve not yet done so — gettin’ crackin’. These plays will not read themselves.
We won’t attempt a proper biography here, but we know from where you can locate many; The Bard’s PeekYou profile, chockablock as it is with links to videos, essays, and so much more.