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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
His father John was a glove maker, his mother Mary was a farmer's daughter; he had two older sisters two younger sisters and three younger brothers.

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At 18 years old he married Anne Hathaway, they had a daughter called Susannah and twins named Judith and Hamlet.

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Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started

writing plays too.
In 1593 a terrible disease killed thousands of people and theatres were closed. During this time Williams started to write poems instead of plays: the sonnets.

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Shakespeare wrote comedies with happy endings like a Midsummer Night's Dream.
He wrote tragedies which had sad endings like Romeo and Juliet.
His history plays are about kings and queens like Henry V. Shakespeare wrote 38 plays or maybe more.
He loved language and invented new words and expressions that we still use today!

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He died when he was 52, on April the 23rd 1616.
His plays and poetry were very popular 400 years ago and they are still popular today: people all over the world loved his work because he wrote wonderful stories about very interesting people.

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Shakespeare helped build a new theatre called The Globe, it opened in 1599, it was round and had space for 3,000 people.
Musicians created special noises to make the plays more exciting.
No women acted in Shakespeare's time men and boys played all the parts.