British · 1564–1616
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is the most read author in the English language. Writing for the London stage in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, he produced 37 plays and 154 sonnets that have shaped how English speakers think about love, power, grief, and ambition. warpread.app includes his two most widely read plays, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet — both short enough to finish in a single RSVP session and dense enough to reward multiple readings. Shakespeare's verse was written to be spoken quickly: the natural cadence of iambic pentameter makes it well-suited to speed reading.
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Two teenagers from feuding families fall catastrophically in love in Verona and manage to make everything worse at every possible juncture. The play that gave us the template for doomed romance, a balcony scene everyone can quote, and the most misquoted line in English literature.
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