William Shakespeare
English · 1564–1616
English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His surviving works include 39 plays and 154 sonnets, spanning tragedy (Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello), comedy (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night), and history (Henry V, Richard III). His influence on English vocabulary, idiom, and dramatic form is unmatched, and his plays remain staples of the global theatrical repertoire 400 years after his death.
Books
- Hamlet (1603)
Episodes
Fleeting mentions
- 67. Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars
- 65. Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'
- 59. Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book?
- 51. Murakami's Norwegian Wood: the sadboi and his manic pixie dream girls
- 47. Borges's Library of Babel: Ctrl + F for meaning
- 32. DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024
- 28. Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doom
- 25. Crime and Punishment finale: is Dostoevsky...overrated??
- 16. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, part 1: Post-nut clarity and forbidden knowledge
- 15. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE Interpretation
- 7. Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old man
- 4. John Williams' sleeper hit Stoner: Finding perfection in mediocrity
- 3. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 3: The world is weary of me and I am weary of it