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William Shakespeare, actor and playwright, is one of the most important characters pertaining to literature. Shakespeare was able to bring out a deep knowledge of human psychology, a diversity of plots, and most importantly his gift of language through his plays. Some of his most popular plays, //Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard II//, became important contributions of art and marked the brilliance during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods of the seventeenth century. His famous Globe Theater, which after 1603, started to present Shakespeare’s plays. The theater was a cultural development as it popularized Shakespeare’s plays and proved to be a main entertainment during the time.

 McKay, John P. __A History of Western Society__. 7th ed. New York City: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.