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he wrote a lot of sonnet and plays.

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Shakespeare's only son died which caused the Shakespeare legacy to end.

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Shakespeare had two sisters and 3 brothers

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"The genius of shake'spear's characters and plots are that they present real human being in a wide range of emotions and conflicts that transcend their origins in Elizabeth's England." (William Shakespeare Biography)

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He got married and had a child at the age of 18 and it was with a 26 year old

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He got married and had a child at the age of 18 and it was with a 26 year old

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Shakespeare appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, where he died 3 years later at age 52

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Shakespeare is estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars. If....

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Shakespeare is estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars. If....

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This is because he made 38 plays and 154 sonnets and if they were licensed to anyone that used it, he would have made a lot of money. Here is the in depth website:  https://atkinsbookshelf.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/what-would-shakespeare-be-worth-today/

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Shakespeare has been credited for introducing more than 3,000 words to the English language by the Oxford dictionary.

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No Portraits of Shakespeare's were painted during is life time. So all exsiting Protraits are at least partly guesswork.

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Shakespeare's shortest play is only a third of the length of his longest,which takes four hours to preform

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None of his actual birth records exist.

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Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language

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The longest word in Shakespeare is honorificabilitudinitatibus

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Copyright didn't exist in Shakespeare's time

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Copyright didn't exist in Shakespeare's time

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They had people in the back stage that would whisper the actors the lines.

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lived through an outbreak of the bubonic plague

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lived through an outbreak of the bubonic plague

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It's a rare but serious disease transmitted by fleas

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His wife was 3 months pregnant when they married

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Over the years he became more famous in the theater life in London

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he has created over 3000 words in the english languege

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He has been credited for introducing more than 3000 words to the English language.

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Shakespheare was 18 when he got married.

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He was the big brother of the family, William had three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund, and two younger sisters.

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Left his families best bed to an unknown woman.

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There are only two Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse, They are Richard II and King John. Many of the plays have half of the text in prose.

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Shakespeare penned a curse for his grave:

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Shakespeare penned a curse for his grave:

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"Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones."

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Shakespeare started school at the age of 6 or 7 years old

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We probably write Shakespeare name wrong he has signed it over 80 diffrent ways over the years 

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We probably write Shakespeare name wrong he has signed it over 80 diffrent ways over the years 

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William Shakespeare married a 26 year old woman at the age of 18.

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He was Baptised on April 26 1564

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Oldest surviving child in his family

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Sonnet 18 has been questioned, and searched to see if Shakespeare was taking about admiring a man or a women, leading a question if he was Bi

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Most people don't know he was also an actor.

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Married Anne Hathaway at age 18

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Shakespeare never published any of his own plays.

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Shakespeare never published any of his own plays.

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"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them". (12th Night)  Excellence is something that everyone can possess.

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His works contained 30,000 different words due to his extensive vocabulary.

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His works contained 30,000 different words due to his extensive vocabulary.

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His exact birth date is not known but it is said as the day he was baptized.

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His family subsequently died out leaving no direct descendants of Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare lived a double life. By the seventeenth century he had become a famous playwright in London but in his hometown he was a well-known and highly respected businessman and property owner

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William Shakespeare lived a double life. By the seventeenth century he had become a famous playwright in London but in his hometown he was a well-known and highly respected businessman and property owner

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Shakespeare and Anne got married when she was 3 months pregnant.

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Only eighteen of his plays were published during his lifetime.

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Only eighteen of his plays were published during his lifetime.

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Shakespeare's family died out leaving no living descendant.

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There are no records of him actually signing his name as "William Shakespeare" as we known him as today.

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In one of his plays he mentions the starling which is a bird. Then Eugene Scheiffelin read his play and brought 60 of those starlings into the U.S. in New York. Now there are over 2 million starlings in New York Central Park.

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shakespeare's only son died at the age of 7

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William Shakespeare had became a wealthy man with a large property portfolio.

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William Shakespeare died on his birthday

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By 1597, 15 out of his 37 plays were published

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he was born  April 23, 1564
he died April 23, 1616

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He married in 1582 when he was 18 and his wife was 25. they had 3 kids 1 boy and 2 girls. Sadly he died before his wife 

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He married in 1582 when he was 18 and his wife was 25. they had 3 kids 1 boy and 2 girls. Sadly he died before his wife 

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See all the wonderful things Julianne Monson has made

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The last play William Shakespeare had worked on was "The Two Noble Kingsmen" in 1613

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Since William Shakespeare lived more than 400 years ago, and many records from that time are lost or never existed in the first place, we don't know everything about his life. For example, we know that he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, 100 miles northwest of London, on April 26, 1564. But we don't know his exact birthdate, which must have been a few days earlier.

We do know that Shakespeare's life revolved around two locations: Stratford and London. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford, but he worked in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. Even without knowing everything about his life, fans of Shakespeare have imagined and reimagined him according to their own tastes, just as we see with the 19th-century family scene at the top of this page.

Primary sources: Shakespeare Documented
Visit Shakespeare Documented to see primary-source materials documenting Shakespeare's life. This online resource of items from the Folger and other institutions brings together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare and his works, as well as additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter.

On This Page: Birth and Childhood | Marriage and Children | London Theater | Final Years

William Shakespeare was probably born on about April 23, 1564, the date that is traditionally given for his birth. He was John and Mary Shakespeare's oldest surviving child; their first two children, both girls, did not live beyond infancy. Growing up as the big brother of the family, William had three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund, and two younger sisters: Anne, who died at seven, and Joan.

Their father, John Shakespeare, was a leatherworker who specialized in the soft white leather used for gloves and similar items. A prosperous businessman, he married Mary Arden, of the prominent Arden family. John rose through local offices in Stratford, becoming an alderman and eventually, when William was five, the town bailiff-much like a mayor. Not long after that, however, John Shakespeare stepped back from public life; we don't know why.

Shakespeare, as the son of a leading Stratford citizen, almost certainly attended Stratford's grammar school. Like all such schools, its curriculum consisted of an intense emphasis on the Latin classics, including memorization, writing, and acting classic Latin plays. Shakespeare most likely attended until about age 15.
On Shakespeare Documented: Primary-source materials relating to Shakespeare's family

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An overview of Shakespeare's life from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including his birth and childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon, his marriage to Anne Hathaway and their children, his work in the London theaters, and his final years before his death in 1616.

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William Shakespeare wrote around 884,647 words and 118,406 lines

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The Globe theater was destroyed by fire on June 29 1613

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13 suicides had occurred within his plays.

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Wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets

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William Shakespeare left only one thing for his wife in his will... and that was his second best bed.

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Shakespeare was the oldest out of 3 brothers and both of his sister died at infentcy

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William Shakespeare had two kids who both died at a young age

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He bought the second largest house in the town.

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He bought the second largest house in the town.

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William Shakespeare was 18 when he married and his wife was 26. this was normal for the time period however.

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Shakespeare's first work with his name published on the cover was, Love's Labour's Lost.