Shakespeare in his own time surprisingly was not even close to as famed as he is today. Back in the day, Shakespeare was actually hated by many because of his unconventional writing style, sadly this led their being a lack of social and personal records of him around so there wasn't much talk about him in his time. However, this is just simply not the case in todays world. Shakespeare now is thought to be one of the greatest writers of all time, his name is incredibly famous. Little known fact, Shakespeare is the largest single contributor in history to the words in the oxford dictionary. Shakespeare is represented today as a brilliant visionary. And rightfully so, we so so many stories that are his in todays world.
Below, I've found a video that points out but a few movies that have nearly the exact same plot lines as some of Shakespeare's plays, especially the Lion King and Hamlet.
Shakespeare is incredibly popular as many high schoolers study his works of art, he's become so much of a household name that people have even begun making internet memes about him, here's an example of two I found particularly amusing below:
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