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Apr 26, 1564
Early Life
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was baptised on 26 April 1564. He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers. -
1578
School Years
He studied Latin, Greek and History. But at the age of 14-15 years old he left school. -
1582
Family
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway.Six months after the marriage Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, baptised 26 May 1583. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596. -
London
He went to London and played as an actor, then he started writing plays ,too. -
The Plague
In 1593 the Plague had killed thousands of people and the theatres closed.During that Shakespeare started writing poems called sonnets -
the Globe
In 1599 Shakespeare opened a new theatre called The Globe. It was round and 3000 could attend a play. Some of them could sit some of them no. There were musicians in the play ,too. Also, the roles played only by men. -
Plays
BY the year 1615 he had written about 38 plays. These were comedies,like mid-summer-night dream, dramas,such as Hamlet and historical events, like Henry V. The audience loved his work, because he wrote beautiful stories about many places in the world. -
Death
He became rich and famous. But at age 52 years old he died.2