William Shakespeare

The master of the human theater, who possessed a vocabulary that could encompass both the heights of heaven and the gutters of London. He understood that "all the world's a stage," and that we are merely players caught in a web of ambition, love, and "sound and fury." Shakespeare represents the totality of the human experience—the writer who proved that "we are such stuff as dreams are made on." Is there any emotion he did not name? Is there any corner of the heart he did not illuminate?