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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, and is known as the greatest writer in the English language. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".All in all he wrote more than 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long poems and a great number of other poems,. His plays have been translated into more than 30 languagesand are performed very often .
Shakespeare was born on the 23 of April 1564 and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a businessman- a glove- maker and his mother was the daughter of a landowner. As a child William went to a grammar school.  At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company.
Shakespeare’s early plays were mainly comedies and histories.He then wrote mainly tragediesincluding Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth,.
William Shakespeare died onthe  23of April 1616, at the age of 52.

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