William Shakespear was an english playwriter and poet in the 16th and 17th century, and is regarded by many as the greatest writer ever from England.
Shakespear was born in staford-upon-avon to John and Mary shakespear. His birthdate is unknown, he was baptised on 26th April 1564. When he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children, a daughter Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Shakespear wrote many plays. Some of his most famous are - Romeo+Juliet, midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Taming of the shrew and twelth night.
He 37 plays, of these 14 were comedies, 12 were histories, and 11 were tradgedies.
Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52. He died in his hometown. His wife Anne died that same year.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shake
It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.
A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997 approximately 750 feet (230 m) from the site of the original theatre.
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/plays.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml
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