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热心网友时间：2024-10-11 17:33

William Shakespeare （26 April 1564–23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright who is now regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include 38 plays, two long narrative poems, 154 sonnets, and a few other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, Shakespeare moved to London, where he found success as an actor, writer, and part-owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men (later known as the King's Men). He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records survive concerning Shakespeare's private life, and considerable speculation has been poured into this void, including questions about his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were actually written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. He at first wrote mainly comedies and histories, genres that he raised to a peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, producing what are considered some of the greatest in the language, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. In the last phase of his career, Shakespeare turned to tragicomedies and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published during his lifetime in editions of variable quality and accuracy; and in 1623, two of his former acting colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.

热心网友时间：2024-10-11 17:29

Ernest Hemingway was born on 21st July 1899 in Oak Park, Chicago.
The second of six children. He was born at eight o'clock in the south front bedroom of 439 North Oak Park Avenue. His grandfather's house.
He weighed a healthy nine and a half pounds and measured twenty three inches tall.
At seven weeks old he was taken to Bear Lake, to the shorefront property that his father, Dr Ed Hemingway had purchased the summer before.
It was not until October 1st, on his parent's third wedding anniversary that he was christened, Ernest Miller Hemingway at the First Congregational Church.
In his first year he experienced the pleasures of life on the shore at Bear Lake and at three he had caught his first fish. His mother described him at three and a half years of age as:
" Ernest Miller is a little man - no longer lazy - dresses himself completely and is a good helper for his father. He wears suspenders just like Papa. Is very proud to be a member of Agassiz (a nature study group organised by his father). He counts up to 100, can spell by ear very well. He likes to build cannons and forts with building blocks. He collects cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War. He loves stories about Great Americans - can give you good sketches of all the great men of American History"
He sounded, even then, like an exceptional child.
When Hemingway was six, his grandfather died and the Hemingway family left his grandfather's house (and the house Ernest Hemingway was born in) and moved to a corner lot at 600 North Kenilworth Avenue and Iowa Street. It was an eight bedroomed, three storey house, with an office for his father, where he could conduct his medical business.