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It seems worth mentioning that today is believed to be the birthday of William Shakespeare. From this morning’s Writer’s Almanac:

His early popularity made him a lot of enemies. The very first person ever to write about Shakespeare was the poet Robert Greene, who accused Shakespeare of plagiarism, calling him, “An upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers.” And in fact most of Shakespeare’s plays were not original, but based on historical events or old stories. What made them great was his extraordinary ability with language. He used one of the largest vocabularies of any English writer, almost 30,000 words.

Happy birthday, you old ghost.

Posted Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 12:11 pm by fledgling otaku. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Categories: Literature.

One Response to “Happy birthday to the Bard”

1. Quorlox Says:
   April 23rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm

   And more importantly for some, today is my birthday as well.

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