A cruel and heartless man that wrote scores of plays for the sole purpose of torturing young schoolboys and -girls for generations after his death.

To "shake one's spear".

to create a new word

1. rather good but slightly overrated playwright
2. largely considered one of the most horrendous forms of torture ever imposed on countless school children.

The most brilliant writer of all time

Verb
tense, shakespeared, shakespearing, to shakespeare
1. To create a word

2. To make a verb from a noun.

Really old guy with a whole crap-load of plays that he may or may not have actually written. Some of his stuff is good, some not so good, but all of it over-analysized by english teachers around the globe. Like all really old guys from the Renaissance, he kind of looks like blood hound that got thrown into a blender with a bunch of lace doilies.