William Shakespeare

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• William Shakespeare

• By Cadet Lopez

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• Education

• Shakespeare probably attended King Edward VI
  Grammar School in central Stratford. While the
  quality of Elizabethan-era grammar schools was
  uneven, the school probably would have provided
  an intensive education in Latin grammar and
  literature. It is presumed that the young
  Shakespeare attended this school, since as the
  son of a prominent town official he was entitled
  to do so for free.

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Family
At the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway,
who was twenty-six, on November 28, 1582. Anne
lived in Shottery, a small hamlet until Will
Shakespeare came along, and, in 1582, Anne
subsequently became pregnant. On May 26, 1583,
Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, was baptised
at Stratford. Twin children, a son, Hamnet, and a
daughter, Judith, were baptised on February 2,
1585. Hamnet died in 1596. At 26, Anne knew the
way of the world while William was still a
troubled youth, unsure of his path and coping
with the collapse of his father's businesses and
the uncertainty of the times. After William
turned 21, there would be no more children for
Anne and him.
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A Shakespeare Sonnet
Those lips that Love's own hand did
makeBreath'd forth the sound that said I hateTo
me that languish'd for her sakeBut when she saw
my woeful state,Straight in her heart did mercy
come.Chiding that tongue, that ever sweetWas
used in giving gentle doom And taught it thus
anew to greet'I hate' she alter'd with an
endThat follow'd it as gentle dayDoth follow
night, who like a fiendFrom heaven to hell is
flown away.'I hate' from hate away she
threw,And sav'd my life, saying 'not you'
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His famous plays

• William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation
  of being among greatest in the English language
  and in Western literature. His plays are
  traditionally divided into tragedy, history, and
  comedy. His plays have been translated into every
  major living language, in addition to being
  continually performed all around the world.
• Among the most famous and critically acclaimed of
  Shakespeare's plays are King Lear, Romeo and
  Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Julius
  Caesar, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The
  Merchant of Venice, Richard III and Macbeth.

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Last years

• Shakespeare's last two plays were written in
  1613, after which he appears to have retired to
  Stratford. He died on April 23, 1616, at the age
  of fifty-two, on the same date (though not same
  day for England was still functioning under the
  Julian calendar) as Spanish writer and poet
  Miguel de Cervantes. He also died on his
  birthday, if the speculation that he was born on
  April 23 is correct. He was married to Anne until
  his death and was survived by his two daughters,
  Susanna and Judith. Susanna married Dr John Hall,
  but there are no direct descendants of the poet
  and playwright alive today.

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