William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet who lived in the late 1500's and early 1600's.

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Introduction

William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet who lived in the late 1500's and early 1600's. His plays are now performed all over the world in hundred of languages, and he is known as one of the greatest writers of all time. The reason his work is so popular is, Shakespeare wrote about human nature and how people behave. Although his words can be hard to understand, his ideas are as relevant now as they were four centuries ago.

Shakespeare's Childhood

William Shakespeare is generally accepted as the cleverest user of words in the world. He was born at a particularly fortunate moment in the history of English.

William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564, in Stratford, which is 100 miles northwest from London.

William Shakespeare was the eldest son, and third child of eight, because his elder brothers were dead in few years after their birth. (You can see it in Romeo and Juliet too).

His father John Shakespeare was a glove maker. His mother, Mary Arden, had some land and money of her own.

Even though they weren't rich, they were quite comfortable in their life.

Stratford was a small market town surrounded by green fields.

William went o Stratford Grammar School, when he was seven. A school day was 11 hours long and he had to go six days a week. Later on he revealed this, as he hated it.

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Shakespeare’s childhood name was Will. In that time his father owed a lot of money to others, because of his business (it went down).

Therefore Will stopped to going school and went to work with his father. Another friend of Will, who was also a writer, revealed this later as "Will have small Latin and less Greek".

Will got married at 18 with Anne Hathaway, who was the daughter of a local farmer. When she got married, she was eight years older than Will.

They got married without any public notices because, Anne was ...

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