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Was born on April 23 1564
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At the age of 7 he went to King Edward V1 grammar school in Strarford and at the age of 9 he leadred Latin
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SOnn later on his father pulled im out of school at the age of 14 Depriveing him of the university education he was working toward.
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he married Anne Hathaway, a woman seven or eight years his senior. Together they raised two daughters: Susanna, who was born in 1583, and Judith.
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1585 he went to London to begin his apprenticeship as an actor.
But due to the black plaque(Bubonic plague) theaters were closed till June 1585 till april 1586 -
Shakespeare probably had some income from his patron, Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated his first poem, Venus and Adonis
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Shakespeare wrote more than 30 plays. These are usually divided into four categories: histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances.
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In 1594, Shakespeare joined the Lord Chamberlain's company of actors, the most popular of the companies acting at Court
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Only eighteen of Shakespeare's plays were published separately in quarto editions during his lifetime; a complete collection of his works did not appear until the publication of the First Folio.
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Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, his second tragedy, and over the next dozen years he would return to the form,
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Sometime after 1612, Shakespeare retired from the stage and returned to his home in Stratford. He drew up his will in January of 1616, which included his famous bequest to his wife of his "second best bed." He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried two days later at Stratford Church.
