Writer William Shakespeare and world records

According to journalist Kevin Lynch, as of 2014, William Shakespeare is the world's best-selling playwright, with sales of his plays and poems reaching more than four billion pounds in the nearly 400 years since his death. He is also the third most translated author in history.

A scene from the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love directed by John Madden

Hamlet is the longest of Shakespeare's 37 plays, written between 1599 and 1601. It consists of 4,042 lines, totaling 29,551 words. Hamlet also contains the longest dialogue of Shakespeare's 1,277. The character of Hamlet alone, as the Prince of Denmark, has 1,569 lines, totaling 11,610 words.

First use of word related to assassin

Assassination is the earliest known use of the word by Shakespeare in English literature. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it appears in William Shakespeare's Macbeth , written in 1605.

The First Folio is the first book containing all the plays of William Shakespeare, printed in 1623. At that time, the publisher printed only 750 copies of the First Folio , by 2014 researchers discovered that only 228 copies remained. On October 8, 2001, Christie's auctioned one of the five copies of the First Folio in New York City (USA) for $6,166,000 (4,156,947 pounds). This is the highest price for a book published since the 17th century.

Records related to William Shakespeare

Shakespeare was the author of many plays and poems that have been adapted for film, in many versions. He probably had no idea during his lifetime that his plays and sonnets (short poems) have been adapted into 420 films and television series. Hamlet tops the list with 79 versions, followed by Romeo and Juliet with 52 versions, and Macbeth with 36 versions.

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by John Madden. It depicts the fictional love affair between Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) during the period when Shakespeare was writing his play Romeo and Juliet. It was a commercial success, grossing $289 million worldwide and becoming the ninth highest-grossing film of 1998. It won three Golden Globe Awards; two Screen Actors Guild Awards; four British Academy Film Awards; and seven Academy Awards at the 71st Academy Awards.

Canadian Sean Shannon can speak fluently at an incredible speed. He won the Guinness World Record for fastest storyteller in 1995, after reciting the famous soliloquy from Hamlet "To be, or not to be" in just 23.8 seconds!.

Portrait of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare circa 1600

Another record holder is Adrian Hilton (British) who recited the entire works of Shakespeare in an impressive 110 hours and 46 minutes at the "Bardathon" competition, part of the Shakespeare Festival, held at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London in 1987.

On 3 July 2005, a total of 7,104 students performed some 368 productions as part of the UK Shakespeare Schools Festival. This also set a world record.

If Pablo Picasso's paintings are the most forged, Shakespeare's works are no less. William Henry Ireland, the son of a bookseller and antiquarian, created a number of manuscripts purporting to be Shakespeare's works, which appeared in London between 1794 and 1795. Journalist Kevin Lynch said that among them were correspondence between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton; a letter and love poem to Anne Hathaway; two theater contracts; Shakespeare's confession of the soul; a letter to him from Queen Elizabeth; revisions of some of Shakespeare's famous plays, along with two unpublished historical plays.

A scene from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet , performed at the Why Not Theatre in Toronto, Canada

Initially, some reputable literary critics and other prominent figures considered the "fakes" of William Henry Ireland to be genuine, so much so that Vortigern , one of the apocryphal plays, was performed in 1796. Eventually, scholars became aware of the forgery, because some of the plays and documents were considered suspicious: dates were not tallied, some events were implausible, especially there were some spelling errors, and the style and language were odd, unlike William Shakespeare.

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