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William Shakespeare has stood the test of time so well that even now we study and speak of him. More than four hundred years after his birth, he is held in the highest regard as the world's greatest poet and playwright. Even the prominent society was respectful of him in his own time. "Over the span of his fifty two years, from a relatively obscure background, he achieved fame, wealth and status without ever losing touch with his roots in his native home of Warwickshire."1
William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden sometime in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was baptized on the 26th of April; therefore, it is assumed that he was born around April 23rd due to the fact that the infant mortality rate was not very good at that particular time. His father was a prominent and prosperous alderman in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. It is presumed that young William attended the Stratford Grammar School. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in 1582. One year later Anne had a daughter named Susanna, followed by the twins Judith and Hamlet two years later.
Seven years later, William Shakespeare was recognized as an actor, poet, and playwright, when a rival playwright named Robert Greene referred to him as "an upstart crow" in "A Groatsworth of Wit." A few years later he joined up with one of the most successful acting troupes in London called "The Lord Chamberlain's Men." When, in 1599, the troupe lost the lease of the theatre where they performed, they were wealthy enough to build their own theatre across the Thames, south of London, which they called
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"The Globe." The new theatre opened in July of 1599. "The Letters Patent of the company specifically charged William Shakespeare and eight others to freely use and exercise the art and faculty of playing Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Interludes, Morals,...
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