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Born 1564, died 1616.

Before the rise of Blackadder, the playwright William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, England's National Poet or Billy Waggledagger, was the prime source of quotes to liven up a military presentation.

More about the chap himself here.

Wrote among others, the plays:

Hamlet

Henry V