Excerpt from William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

The same year which saw the death of Michael Angelo in Rome, saw the birth of William Shakespeare at stratford-ou-avon. The great artist of the Italian Renaissance, the man who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, was replaced, as it were, by the great artist of the English Renaissance, the man who wrote King Lear.

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