William Shakespeare fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon, se le considera el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
William Shakespeare est un dramaturge, poète et acteur anglais baptisé le 26 avril 1564 à Stratford-upon-Avon et mort le 23 avril 1616 dans la même ville. Surnommé « le Barde d'Avon », « le Barde immortel » ou simplement « le Barde », il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands poètes et dramaturges de langue anglaise. Son œuvre, traduite dans de nombreuses langues, se compose de 39 pièces, 154 sonnets et quelques poèmes supplémentaires, dont certains ne lui sont pas attribués de manière certaine.
William Stearns Davis was an American educator, historian, and author. He has been cited as one who "contributed to history as a scholarly discipline,. .. [but] was intrigued by the human side of history, which, at the time, was neglected by the discipline." After first experimenting with short stories, he turned while still a college undergraduate to longer forms to relate, from an involved (fictional) character's view, a number of critical turns of history. This faculty for humanizing, even dramatizing, history characterized Davis' later academic and professional writings as well, making them particularly suitable for secondary and higher education during the first half of the twentieth century in a field which, according to one editor, had "lost the freshness and robustness. .. the congeniality" that should mark the study of history. Both Davis' fiction and non-fiction are found in public and academic libraries today.
William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and author of The Elements of Style (1918). After revision and enlargement by his former student E. B. White, it became a highly influential guide to English usage during the late 20th century, commonly called Strunk & White.
William Stubbs was an English historian and Anglican bishop. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford between 1866 and 1884. He was Bishop of Chester from 1884 to 1889 and Bishop of Oxford from 1889 to 1901.
