Shakespeare
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The Writer Is a Very Famous Writer
The epic poem, Venus and Adonis, proves to be Shakespeare's best-selling publication in his own lifetime. In The Tempest, one of the plays written later in his life, Shakespeare muses that what is past is now prologue. We know very little about Shakespeare's childhood beyond where and when his story starts. Every English speaker carries his DNA in their words.
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