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William Shakespeare

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Profession
Playwright
Died
Apr 23, 1616
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Stratford-upon-AvonEngland
About
Elizabethan era playwright and poet who is regarded as the most influential writer in English literature. The author of 38 plays and 154 sonnets, he is particularly famous for Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello (tragedies) and for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew (comedies).
Family
He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He married Anne Hathaway when he was eighteen and she was twenty-six. His eldest daughter, Susanna, was born in 1583, and his twins, Judith and Hamnet, were born two years later.

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