... hide-and-seek, and tag. He had two sisters Anne and Joan. William also had three brothers Gilbert, Fichard, and Edmund. By the age of thirteen William had to quit going to school because his father needed him to work at their family business ... Raphael Holinshed's work. Some of the play's he wrote are a Midsummers's Night's Dream and Love's Labor's Lost. By August 1596 William had become great and well known writer. By that time William Shakespeare was thirty-two years old. His plays were being shown and his poems were being sold. He is a great actor ... and author. William Shakespear...

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... first company to be employed was either Burbage's Theatre or Laneman's Curtain, the first purpose- built public playhouses in the world (Sams 55). In 1592, when Shakespeare was just beginning his career as a playwright, the plague came to London. The theatres were shut down for two years, and when they re-opened in 1594, ... he abandoned a promising career as a poet and resumed as a playwrighter (Martin 53). By 1595, William had purchased a share in the recently formed acting company with which he was to remain for the rest of his working life 4 (Grose 10). He ... He continued acting w...

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