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He was born on this date!!
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Shakespeare is likely to have begun his formal education. By local tradition, children in the Stratford area, entered the local grammar school at age 7.
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Shakespeare is believed to have left his family in Stratford to join a company of actors as both playwright and performer, starting his career in theatre.
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A busy year for Shakespeare as he is thought to have composed Richard II performed that very same year, A Midsummer Nights Dream, thought to be composed for a wedding and the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
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Shakespeare is thought to have composed arguably his greatest play, Hamlet at this time.
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Measure for Measure is believed to have been written in this year.It is later performed at King James I Court. Othello is also penned, being performed on November 1st at Whitehall.
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Timon of Athens, Pericles and Coriolanus are composed
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The Globe Theatre burns to the ground. The Two Noble Kinsmen is penned. A 1634 entry within the Stationer's Registry confirms that both William Shakespeare and John Fletcher composed this play.
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William dies on April 23rd, his bural being recoded in the stratford Holy Church Register two days later.
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Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway dies, the same year, and fellow actors John Hemmings and Henry Condell gather together and publish for the first time, 36 of Shakespeare's 37 plays in a collection known as The FIrst Folio.