... author has ever been able to duplicate. The works of William Shakespeare have never been forgotten, despite the fact that his plays and poems were written hundreds of years ago. Every one of his plays was written with a mastery unknown before his time and never seen again ... often been the subject of controversy, one must first realize that there has been a long standing debate over the actual authorship of the famous Shakespearian works. Some attribute his works to Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, or to Edward De Vere the Earl of Oxford. The prime contender ... his twins, Hamnet. De...

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... and respected farmer. In 1557 John Shakespeare got married to Maria, the daughter of Robert Arden, a wealthy and very respected farmer, too. The Arden family was a modest branch of one famous family with the same name. John and Maria had four sons and four daughters. Three daughters died in their childhood. Only one of them, Jovana, outlived her parents and brothers ... some parts in his drama we could see that women shouldn't be older then their husbands. In 1610 he retired to Stratford where he died. His Literary work encircles narrative poems: Venice and Adon, The Kidnaping of Lucrec...

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