Talk Like Shakespeare Day

Shakespeare was born 23rd April 1564. He was an actor, as well as a writer. Shakespeare's father made gloves for a living. He held a lot of different jobs, and at one point got paid to drink beer. Shakespeare had seven siblings.

Nobody knows what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592. William Shakespeare is believed to have influenced the English language more than any other writer in history, coining—or, at the very least, popularizing—terms and phrases that still regularly crop up in everyday conversation.

Examples include the words “fashionable” (“Troilus and Cressida”), “sanctimonious” (“Measure for Measure”), “eyeball” (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and “lackluster” (“As You Like It”); and the expressions “foregone conclusion” (“Othello”) ...