Happy birthday, Bill!(LITERATURE) (Brief article)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) turns the big 4-5-0 on April 23, and people all over the world are celebrating. Shakespeare's Globe theater in London is kicking off a two-year tour of Hamlet that will visit every nation on the planet; China is staging a hip-hop Romeo and Juliet; and a New York theater group is filming videos for each of the Bard's 154 sonnets. Shakespeare's works have been translated into more than 80 languages and are studied annually by more than 60 million children worldwide. But controversy has long dogged him: He's been accused of plagiarizing...