Biography of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in 1564, supposedly on 22 or 23 April, in
Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John, who was a prosperous glover there,
preparing and selling soft leather, became alderman and later high bailiff.
Shakespeare was educated at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen, he
married Anne Hathaway - eight years older than he and already, she was pregnant.
Six months later their daughter Susanna was born. They had twins, a boy Hamnet
and a girl named Judith, two years later.
There are no records of Shakespeare's life during the seven years that
followed, the lost years'. But by 1592 he was already an established actor and
playwright in London. He joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594, working as
a leading actor and dramatist. By 1599 this all-male company of experienced and
talented players - no women appeared on the stage until the Restoration - had
built their own theatre, the Globe. Its owners were seven......
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