• William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the sixteenth century. • He is known mostly for his plays. • His famous Tragedies: - Hamlet, - Macbeth, - Othello, - King Lear, - Julius Caesar, - Romeo and Juliet, - Antony and Cleopatra, - Titus Andronicus, - Timon of Athens. Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopedia of Britannica.