68724beb55bd439220e900a98415dbc4f8c3d0ece2a9a6a6ada0fdbde1aca388,"He was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26 April 1564."
1a5cb0e627aff65ac1a0e6f6ea024af07359893426bd3dc652e3883f945d2007,"He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. His date of birth is unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day."
48c475bd62967a2358e6fa45d4b28e25f42a97561b0284889ce63931d1ecdd15,"As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599. "
bd74311cbba07f17f858611780b991ccf8a7223e87cb983bc942fc423ed594f8,"The earliest record of a retail purchase of the First Folio is an account book entry for 5 December 1623 of Edward Dering.\nThe printing of the Folio was probably done between February 1622 and early November 1623."
97ef65a455586b75d5e34157143e12bf55bef12c0821b4f1951540d275c32aaf,"Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52, in Stratford-upon-Avon"
d93c1629c354a4bf39392d04ae7cc8a1e46a7945538b14e599b07a8a7d3a5ed0,"the earliest surviving mention of Shakespeare's work in the theatre is playwright Robert Greene's attack in Groats-Worth of Wit \n\n ... there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country\n\nMost scholars agree that Greene was accusing Shakespeare of reaching above his rank in trying to match such university-educated writers as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and Greene himself (the so-called \"University Wits\"). The italicised phrase parodying the line \"Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide\" from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, along with the pun \"Shake-scene\", clearly identify Shakespeare as Greene's target. As used here, Johannes Factotum (\"Jack of all trades\") refers to a second-rate tinkerer with the work of others."
