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Shakespeare: Rebel with a cause?
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
English, 1564-1616
Born in Stratford-
Brief upon-Avon to
glove maker John
Bio Shakespeare
and landowner’s
daughter Mary Arden, William
Shakespeare had three children
with his wife Anne Hathaway.
He moved to London in the
late 1580s to pursue an acting
career, becoming a prominent
and prolific playwright and poet,
producing an average of two
plays a year until 1611 before
retiring to Stratford.
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