Death and Legacy

Shakespeare's grave in Stratford-upon-Avon

Assuming that Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, he died on his birthday in 1616. In his will he left most of his estate to his eldest daughter, Susanna. He left only a third of it to his wife Anne. He was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford, which you could still visit today. The engraving on the left, (later written on a sign), says in a modern translation:

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, 
To dig the dust enclosed here. 
Blessed be the man that spares these stones, 
And cursed be he that moves my bones.

The legacy of William Shakespeare can be looked no further than by his famous works. His legacy has spread to the four corners of the Earth though his entertaining  plays and mystifying sonnets that people to this day still read and analyse. His language has stood the test of time, a time of over 400 years, and he is still known as the national poet of the English language. While Homer was known for his poems of war, and Dante known for his tales in Hell, Shakespeare was known for writing everything the human emotion could experience, from love to anger, from insanity to jealously, from fear, 

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