... 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 ... estate and was wealthy. Most of William's stories and comedies were written before 1600. The great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, Lear, MacBeth, Anthony and Cleopatra were belonged through 1608, most of William Shakespeare's plays were not published in his lifetime, since there was no dramatic copywright during t...

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... probably had a fairly privileged childhood (Martin 17). Their hometown 3 was a market center for the surrounding country, and John Shakespeare was a contributor to the goods that were sold and traded there. The young Shakespeare worked possibly as a lawyer's clerk at one time. In late 1582, at the age of 18, William married a woman ... 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 w...

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... the Mayor of Stratford. His mother had come form a farming family who was very prosperous. Through that, she inherited some of the land. When Shakespeare was eleven or twelve, his family had become bankrupt. Normal people would attend grammar school till they were the age of 16, but William was ... forced to leave thanks to his father's financial difficulties. On November 27th, 1582, Shakespeare had got married to Anne Hathaway. She was eight years older then he was. The reason they got married is just a calculated guess, but ... at the time, she was pregnant with Shakespeare's child. I...

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