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Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. -
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. -
After the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. -
A Midsummer Night's Dream ,Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing,As You Like It, Twelfth Night,Richard II,** Romeo and Juliet*, **Julius Caesar*. Hamlet, Othello , King Lear,Macbeth,** Antony and Cleopatra** and Coriolanus are also famous. -
The Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to be printed. -
On 29 June 1613, the original Globe theatre in London, where most of William Shakespeare’s plays debuted, was destroyed by fire during a performance of All is True -
Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52