Yes, he was also referred to as the Great Bard of Stratford. (Bard means poet)
There is no record of Shakespeare having any nickname, much less "hornhead."
I don't know probably Shakespeare's theater.
His nickname(sobriquet) is "the bard"
Somebody decided to call him that. It's a nickname.
Because Ben Jonson called him that. The River Avon flows through Stratford, Shakespeare's home town.
The famous bard's nickname was "The Bard of Avon." This nickname refers to William Shakespeare, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest playwrights and poets in the English language.
William Shakespeare was known by the nickname "The Bard of Avon."
In Henry V's prologue, he calls the theatre a "wooden o". This expression was probably a one-off and not a nickname, since he only uses it the once.
What a deliciously odd question! William Shakespeare is sometimes called "The Bard of Avon." Bard rhymes with lard.
There isn't one. Oh, people talk about the first Globe as being Shakespeare's Theatre (although he only owned a minor part of it) but that was not its nickname at the time it actually existed. People at the time associated the Globe with the Burbages (who really did own it) not Shakespeare.
He is sometime called the Bard of Avon. "Bard" means poet and his hometown was on the river Avon.
William Shakespeare is a famous English poet, dramatist and playwright. He is famously called The Bard of Avon, derived from his hometown which is Stratford-upon-Avon.