William Shakespeare's plays still enthrall audiences, 460 years after his birth.
Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford on Avon and died on the same date 52 years later in his hometown.
Sometimes I imagine Shakespeare's amazement at our technology, transportation, buildings, mass media and hygienic and health improvements if he were to come back to life today.
Although the English language has changed immensely since Shakespeare's Elizabethan era, and science and commerce have transformed the world, his characters remain relevant. His insights into the human heart, with its passions and foibles, are unsurpassed.
His sonnets also express universal emotions that remain true for us.
Artificial intelligence will never match his poetry and understanding of humanity.
Generations to come will no longer understand his language, critic Amit Majmudar laments in the April New Criterion.
I believe "Hamlet," "King Lear," "The Tempest," "Othello," "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "As You Like It" will keep astonishing those yet unborn.
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