猜猜他是谁之十四 de英文（包子篇）

他是谁？

His birthday remains unclear.

He was baptized(洗礼) at the church in the bustling town along the River Avon.

His father was a successful leather merchant and held official positions as alderman(旧时英格兰高级市政官).

There is almost no record of his childhood and educational background.

There are some convincing pieces of evidence that he worked as an actor and a playwright to earn a living in London.

With his success in writing plays, he earned a large sum of money and purchased a big house for his family.

According to the documents, he became a managing partner in an acting company in London. Afterward, the name of the company changed into the King’s Men in 1603.

He and his business partners started to build their own theater on the bank of the Thames River.

His works usually use metaphors(隐喻) and rhetorical phrases to depict human emotion and conflict.

He wrote plays that involved several themes including histories, tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies(悲喜剧). Perhaps, one of his most famous works would be Hamlet, a tragedy that explores betrayal, retribution and moral failure.

He said: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

As his works are studied and interpreted by numerous scholars, his name is on everyone’s lips nowadays.

Do you have any idea who he is?

If you can’t figure out his name, here the answer is

威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare)