When Shakespeare was young, he attended a local grammar school in Stratford. ... A few years after he dropped out of the school, in late 1582, when he was 18, he married a twenty-six-year-old women named Anne Hathaway. ... In 1595, while he was writing Romeo and Juliet and Richard II, Shakespeare came into a more productive period of his writing life. ... Two years later, Shakespeare signed another contract where his works was also published around the world. ... Around the year 1611, his work was published but he didn't live to see his " first folio" published. ...

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If a person is walking down the street talking with his or her friend about love, and they mention the play Romeo and Juliet and someone walking nearby hears them, they will understand what they are talking about. ... Shakespeare definitely knew what he was doing when he wrote his plays and published them. ...

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He was an actor by heart, a cobbler at trade, and playwright when inspired hands brought to life the internal voice of poet and realist. ... The young actor furthered his career in such plays as, Henry the VI (c.1590), Titus Andronicus (c.1593) Romeo and Juliet (c.1594). ... It was autumn when the London stages received a notices that all playhouses would remain closed. ... Laurence Taylor's journal published in 1612 from Everyday Life: Of the Sixteenth Century, helps to depict the spread of the plague through the English Theaters. My Edward, a player with Shakespeare's Lord Ch...

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