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Who was Shakespeare and how did his writing express Renaissance ideals?

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William Shakespeare was an English poet and actor born in 1564. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre. Shakespeare influenced the Renaissance by expanding the English language vocabulary.

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