William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet that lived in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his have. Shakespeare was born into a middle class family. His father, John, was a Straford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a …showed first 75 words of 851 total…

…showed last 75 words of 851 total…writers, but only Shakespeare has generated such enormous continuing interest. His plays are usually divided in the three categories of comedy, tragedy, and history. "the Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew", and " The Two Gentlemen of Verone" are examples of his work that fall into the comedy category. "Romeo and Juliet", "Titus Andronicus", and "Julius Caesar" are all tragedy plays. "Henry V", "Richard II", and Richard III" are all of the history plays.