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"Shakespeare said, "First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers". He was wrong. We should start with the diplomats."
Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma[src]

William Shakespeare was a famous English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

Biography[]

William Shakespeare was the author of Hamlet[1] and Richard II.[2]

Legacy[]

The Stroud Hall of Marshall College had one room is fitted with a small stage for drama classes and those studying and taging the plays of Shakespeare.[3]

In 1916, Indiana Jones recognized Robert Graves as having quoted Shakespeare's Richard II which prompted Siegfried Sassoon to ask Jones his opinion on Dreamers, one of Sassoon's poems.[2]

Four years later, Jones told Kate Rivers that Shakespeare was his favorite poet.[4]

Shakespeare was quoted on a plaque in Venice's Biblioteca di San Barnaba in 1938: "Charming town. I was particularly taken with a tradesman I met."[5]

Behind the scenes[]

The library quote in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure[5] is a humorous LucasArts reference to one of Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice.

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