Biography Of William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was born in 1564, supposedly on 22 or 23 April, in
Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John, who was a prosperous glover there,
preparing and selling soft leather, became alderman and later high bailiff.
Shakespeare was educated at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen, he
married Anne Hathaway - eight years ....
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.... written during
these ten years, and were acted there. Both Queen Elizabeth, and after her
James I, showed the company many favors.
In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the Globe was destroyed by
fire. But the Lord Chamberlain's men, by now called the King's Men, had four
years earlier leased a second, smaller playhouse, the Blackfriars. This was an
indoor theatre, unlike the Globe which was open to the sky, and it had the
technical ....
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