Every year on April 23, UNESCO celebrates World Book and Copyright Day to promote reading, publishing and copyright. Several prominent writers share this date as their death anniversary. William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega are a few among the dozen others who died on the same day. UNESCO decided to celebrate this day as World Book and Copyright Day in 1995.
William Shakespeare was one the greatest playwrights of all times. Today marks the date of his birth as well death. Shakespeare was born in England and was the eighth child of his parents. Shakespeare died at the age of 52. His sudden death has been the subject of speculation for centuries.
In his lifetime, he is said to have introduced almost 3,000 words to the English dictionary. Shakespeare was married to a woman who was much older than him. Anne Hathaway gave birth to her child six months into the marriage. Shakespeare is also known to have performed in his own plays. He never published any of his plays and it was only because of two colleagues that the copies were safe.
Shakespeare’s influence is so deep that quite a few moons of Uranus are named after characters from his plays. He was known as an able businessman who formed a joint company with his actors and earned. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he died a wealthy man. On Shakespeare’s 46th birthday, the King James Bible was published which contained the Psalm 46, that had ‘shake’ as the 46th words and ‘speare’ as the 46th one from the end.
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