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Lived about 51 years

Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets

Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google.

(FYI - There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare's heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million)

Macbeth is considered the most frequently performed play, a production occurs somewhere in the world every 4 hours

His plays have been translated into over 30 different languages and his sonnets over 80

Shakespeare’s plays are globally produced more often than any other playwright in the history of theatre.

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“Funny Boy” a flop musical inside the musical “The Producers”

“Rockabye Hamlet” February of 1976…7 performances

Prequel to Hamlet: “Gertrude and Claudius” by John Updike

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Movies: Yellow SkyForbidden PlanetTempest (2002)

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