This book is a comprehensive biography of the life and works of William Shakespeare, one of the most famous and influential playwrights and poets of all time. It covers his early life, his education, his rise to fame, his plays and sonnets, his relationships, and his death.
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William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, in the Holy Trinity Church. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. He died in his home town of Stratford on 23 April 1616, aged 52.