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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

His father, John, was a glove-maker. His mother, Mary, was a farmer’s daughter.

He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers.

William studied Latin, Greek, and history, and left school at 14 or 15.

Three years later he married Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter called Susanna and twins named Judith and Hamnet.

Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford and went to London, the capital city of England.

London’s first theatre opened in 1576. Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays too.

In 1593 the plague, a terrible disease, killed thousands of people and theatres were closed.

During this time William started to write poems instead of plays. His short poems are called sonnets.

William became rich and famous. He had houses in London and in Stratford.