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Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning family.

He was born in 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and died in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1616.

Shakespeare was baptized on april 26

His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April, which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.

After marrying Anne Hathaway 7 years passed, known as Shakespeare lost years.

He was buried in Stratford- Upon-Avon in the Holy Trinity Church

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He went to the King ́s New School, on church street.

In King ́s New School he learned to read and write

He received intensive grammar education upon classic latin authors

He studied latin, literature, and rhetoric.

He didn't go to university

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At the age of 14, his father fell into a disgrace and he had to drop out of school.

Shakespeare had to work different jobs to help his family

He worked as a butcher at 15 years

In his adolescence shakespeare gave himself to bad company, and some who stole deer induced him more than once to steal them from a park belonging to Sir Thomas Lucy

there is no more information of Shakespeare teen years until he got married at 18

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At 18 he married 26 years old Anne Hathaway.

Anne Hathaway was 8 years older than Shakespeare when they got married

He had 3 children: Susanna, Hamnet, and  Judith.

Hamnet sadly passed away at 11 years old.

Shakespeare makes references to Hamnet in some of his works

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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.

The last years of the 1580s are known as the lost years or dark years of Shakespeare

In his lost years there is a theory that he fled from Stratford to avoid prosecution as a poacher.

Other theories  said that Shakespeare toured with an acting troupe Possibly in Italy

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Shakespeare had seven siblings: Joan, Margaret, Gilbert,  another Joan, Anne, Richard, and Edmund.

Shakespeare put a curse on his grave:
Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here:
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

His nickname was "The bard of avon"

Shakespeare had his own family coat of arms

Shakespeare was a Catholic

Shakespeare was a favourite of King James I

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1. Shakespeare's Life https://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-life#:~:text=He%20grew%20up%2C%20had%20a,both%20prosperous%20and%20well%2Dknown.

2. William Shakespeare Animated Biography - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVF8Q-zZz00

3. William Shakespeare Facts https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

4. William Shakespeare - Playwright | Mini Bio - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geev441vbMI

5. SHAKESPEARE | Draw My Life. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/8mYi6tIGP8Q