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1564
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-uponAvon, in England.
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1576
London's first theatre opened in 1576.
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Period: 1576 to
Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays too.
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1580
He probably left school when he was 14 or 15.
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He married Anne Hathaway.
They had a
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He left Stratford and went to London, the capital city of England.
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The plague, a terrible disease, killed thousands of people and theatres were closed.
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Shakespeare helped build a new theatre called The Globe.
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He died when he was 52 on 23 April 1616.