Shakespeare Biography
Date Submitted: 09/20/2002 22:38:38
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (644 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (644 words)
William Shakespeare was born in the year of 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His exact birth date is unknown but it is traditionally celebrated on April 23. In England this day is known as the feast of St. George. He was the third of eight children born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. John Shakespeare was a tanner, and a glove maker. He served a term as the mayor of Stratford, a town council man, a justice of …
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…near, but did not want anybody to know.
Seven years after he died, in 1623 William Shakespeare's first folio was published including 154 sonnets, 36 plays, and his two long poems. The folio was put together by his friends so that nobody could take his work as theirs.
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