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He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, on April 23,1564. -
By the late 1580s, Shakespeare had relocated to London, where he began his career as an actor and playwright.
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Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, in 1582, at the age of 18, with whom he had three children. -
She is Susanna, born in 1583. -
The twins Hamnet and Judith, born in 1585. -
" Henry VI "
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In the early 1590s, he penned a series of comedies.
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" Richard III "
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" The Taming of the Shrew "
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" A Midsummer Night´s Dream "
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In 1596, he faced tragedy with the death of his 11-years-old son, Hamnet. -
In 1598, Shakespeare moved his residence to the parish of St. Helen in Bishopsgate. His name heads the list of actors in the play Every Man in His Humour, by Ben Jonson. -
In 1601, he wrote the tragedy " Hamlet ". -
Called " Othello "
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Called " King Lear ".
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" Macbeth ", all these plays exploring themes of power, ambition, love, jealousy, and existential despair with unparalleled depth and insight.
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In 1609, he published a collection of 154 sonnets, exploring themes of love, beauty, mortality, and the passage of time. -
Shakespeare retired to Stratford-upon-Avon in the early 1610s.
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In March 1613 he made his last acquisition, not in his town, but in London, buying for 140 pounds a house with a corral near the Blackfriars theater, of which he only paid sixty pounds immediately, since the next day he mortgaged the house. for the rest to be sold -
William Shakespeare died on the 23rd of April, 1616, at the age of 52.