William Shakespeare è stato un drammaturgo e poeta inglese, considerato il più importante scrittore inglese e generalmente ritenuto il più eminente drammaturgo della cultura occidentale.
William Shakespeare – angielski poeta, dramaturg, aktor. Powszechnie uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych pisarzy literatury angielskiej oraz reformatorów teatru.
William Shakespeare foi um poeta, dramaturgo e ator inglês. Foi tido como o maior escritor do idioma inglês e considerado por muitos o maior dramaturgo da história. É chamado frequentemente de poeta nacional da Inglaterra e de "Bardo do Avon". De suas obras, incluindo aquelas em colaboração, restaram até os dias de hoje 38 peças, 154 sonetos, dois longos poemas narrativos, e mais alguns versos esparsos, cujas autorias, no entanto, são ainda disputadas. Suas peças foram traduzidas para todas as principais línguas modernas e são mais encenadas que as de qualquer outro dramaturgo. Muitos de seus textos e temas permanecem vivos até os nossos dias, sendo revisitados com frequência, especialmente no teatro, na televisão, no cinema e na literatura.
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.
