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William Shakespeare
1564 to 1616


Family and Education

-born in Stratford-on-Avon
-his father was a prominent
citizen or "gentleman"
-Shakespeare read everything available in print
-he read the classics, French and Italian plays, legends, folk plays, mythology, historical chronicles, and the Bible
-Gutenberg printing press had been invented 100 years earlier
-married Ann Hathaway and had three children - Susanna, and the twins Hamnet and Judith
-Shakespeare died in 1616 of Brights' disease
-in Shakespeare's will he left his house and lands to his eldest daughter, his wife his "second-best bed", his youngest daughter a silver bowl, and enough money for each of his fellow actors to buy a ring to wear in his memory
-Shakespeare's grave reads
Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blessed be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones.
-seven years after his death his friends John Hemings and Henry Condell......

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