Shakespeare was an english poet and play writer. Born in the 1500's, he was the third child born to John Shakespeare and his wife Mary Arden. His father was a very sucessful man, he was a landowner, merchant, artison, and even involved in Englands polictics. At the age of 18 William married a woman named Anne Hathaway. They had three children together, sadly their son, Hamnet was lost to the plague. During his lifetime, William, wrote a total of 36 plays and 154 sonnets. Shakespeare died at the age of 52 in 1616.
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