His plays and poetry are very very good.
Yes.
Steel, just like they are now.
Shakespeare's play was called Romeo and Juliet. Now guess who Juliet was in love with. Take your time . . .
Then as now, it's London.
Shakespeare did not change his name. It was always William Shakespeare. Although it got spelled a lot of peculiar ways from time to time. People in his day didn't get as anal about the spelling of names as people do now.
In Shakespeare's time and place? English. Pretty much the same as we do now, albeit much of his vocabulary is now obsolete. Shakespeare's works are difficult to understand more because they are written in verse than that they are written in a different language.
Most of us have by now. The first to find out was probably his wife, who he was living with at the time.
At least for part of Shakespeare's time, she was Mrs. William Shakespeare.
Basically, he meant that Shakespeare had something which would be relevant at any time, not just in the time he wrote it. Shakespeare was not "topical" most of the time. Jonson, on the other hand, filled his plays with references to people and ideas which were well-known when he was alive but nobody knows about now, which makes Jonson's plays quite dated and hard to follow compared with Shakespeare's.
William Shakespeare died in 1616.
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