William Shakespeare's birthday (and death day)

What can I say about the Bard that someone else has not said better? His plays and poems are the underpinning of British literature. MIT has gathered his works on a convenient site: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

"Sit down awhile;
And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story
What we have two nights seen."


----Horatio in Hamlet