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William Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-avon, England. William was baptized the 26 of april 1564. His nationality is english he was the third of eight children. William attended stratford grammar school at the age of 7. The students in this school spent 9 hours a day, these students also studied latin. William loved to read books of ancient roman authors like cicero, ovid, platus, seneca, terence, and vigil. Williams mom is named Mary arden and dad is John Shakespeare. William married at the age of 18 with Anne Hathaway in November 27 1582. Anne was 26 when she married Shakespeare. They had their first child in 1583. Then 2 years later she gave birth to twins. Now they had 2 daughters and 1 son. William Shakespeare started to write by 1592. He wrote comedy, tragedy, and history plays. Shakespeare’s first play was Henry VI part I around the 1590’s. Shakespeare wrote a average of about 2 plays a year. William Shakespeare also used different types of speech such as assassination, bump, eventful, go between, gloomy, and even lonely. William created his own vocabulary of 29,000 words. He …show more content…

Shakespeare and his family had 2 devastating fires that almost wiped out his entire house. William then left school at the age of 13 to help his mom and dad out with the farm the owned. Shakespeare had a rough life as you can see, he has many more after these. After a couple of years his dad John Shakespeare had a lot of financial problems which led to even harder work. William was forced to marry Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 even though he wasn’t ready for it. Eventually when Shakespeare started to write he had a really hard time finding actors which was stressful because he had plays to perform for the queen. Shakespeare was impacted by lots of criticism even though he ignored all of it because he knew there would be people like

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