William Shakespeare
"William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Such theories are often criticised for failing to adequately note the fact that few records survive of most commoners of the period.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. Then, until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as his. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which the poet presciently hails the playwright in a now-famous quote as "not of an age, but for all time".
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Shakespeare's works have been continually adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted through various cultural and political contexts around the world."
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The statue
"The so-called Opera Square on Bismarckstraße at the corner of Krumme Straße opposite the Deutsche Oper Berlin was given its current name in 1987. The park has the legal character of a "private road of public transport".
For the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987, the City of London Berlin donated the Shakespeare bust of Pam Taylor. Charlottenburg retaliated, renamed the so-called Opera Square to Shakespeare Square and set up the bust here. Charlottenburg has maintained a partnership with the London district of Lewisham since 1968. Many composers of Shakespeare have composed operas later on. Verdi alone has created a whole series of highly successful Shakespeare operas. In this respect, this place directly opposite the German Opera quite apt name."
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Asteroid 2985
"Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare was first seen in 1962 and confirmed as an asteroid on October 12th 1983 by the American astronomer Edward L. G. Bowell. He was principal investigator of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) and discovered a total of 572 asteroids, some of them before he joined the LONEOS project.
It is a small asteroid of the type Koronis. This family of approximately 300 asteroids lies in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is thought that they are the remnants of a collision between 2 larger objects at least 2 billion years ago."
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Mercury Crater Shakespeare in the Shakespeare quadrant
"Shakespeare is a 370 km diameter impact basin in the Shakespeare quadrangle of Mercury, which is named after this crater. It is located at 49.7°N, 150.9°W and is named after playwright William Shakespeare. Touching the southwest rim is the smaller Van Eyck (or as van Eyck) crater. In the west rim of Shakespeare is Zeehaen Rupes which has a small ditchlike hollow."
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The Shakespeare quadrangle
"The Shakespeare quadrangle is a region of Mercury running from 90 to 180° longitude and 20 to 70° latitude. It is also called Caduceata.
The Mariner 10 spacecraft made three passes over this area between 1974 and 1975. The average resolution of the pictures is just over 1 km.
Prior to the images taken by MESSENGER, the only spacecraft images of Mercury were those taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft, which made three passes of the planet in 1974–75 (Murray and others, 1974, Strom and others, 1975). Most images used in mapping the geology of the Shakespeare quadrangle were taken during the near-equatorial first pass, with close encounter or the dark side of the planet. The second, south-polar pass did not image the Shakespeare quadrangle at high resolution. High-resolution images of small areas within the quadrangle were also obtained during the third pass, when the spacecraft was on a near-encounter north-polar trajectory. Because the spacecraft viewed the same areas from different positions during the first and second passes, stereoscopic pictures are available for certain areas of the southern hemisphere; however, such pictures are not available for the Shakespeare quadrangle. All of the Mariner 10 passes occurred under similar lighting conditions. Across the Shakespeare quadrangle, these conditions varied from low light at the terminator near the west boundary to higher sun at the east boundary. Consequently, lighting conditions were favourable for determining fine-scale relief in the west, but progressively less so toward the east. Conversely, albedo features such as bright crater rays, which are conspicuous in the eastern part, become increasingly difficult to recognise westward toward the terminator. This range of lighting conditions across the quadrangle results in inconsistent geologic mapping, because topography, albedo, and surface texture are critical for characterising individual materials units. The average resolution of the pictures used from the first pass is just over 1 km."
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Lunar Crater Shakespeare
"Shakespeare is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed southwest of it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. They did not visit it, but in fact drove around it during EVA 3.
To the south is Van Serg, to the northeast is Cochise, and to the northwest is a crater unofficially called Henry on some maps.
The crater was named by the astronauts after William Shakespeare."
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