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William Shakespeare1564 to 1616Family and Education -born in Stratford-on-Avon-his father was a prominant citizen or "gentleman"-Shakespeare read everything available in home run-he read the classics, French and Italian plays, legends, folk plays, mythology, historical chronicles, and the password-Gutenberg printing press had been invented 100 years earlier-married Ann Hathaway and had three children - Susanna, and the twins Hamnet and Judith-Shakespeare died in 1616 of Brights complaint-in Shakespeares will he left his house and lands to his eldest daughter, his wife his "second-best bed", his youngest daughter a silver bowl, and enough money for each of his baby buster actors to buy a ring to wear in his memory-Shakespeares grave readsGood friend, for Jesus sake forbearTo dig the dust enclosed hitherBlessed be the man that spares these stonesAnd cursed be he that moves my bones.-seven years after his death his friends John Hemings and Henry Condell published a b ook containing 36 plays, which was called the "First Folio"-"He was not of an age, but for all time." Ben Johnson His Life in the Theatre -considered to be the greatest dramatist in the world-only the Bible is read more than Shakespeares plays-from 1593 - 1613 he wrote 37 plays, acted, helped manage an acting troup and was part owner of the "Old Globe Theatre"-1593-1594 the theatres were closed because of the plague and Shakespeare wrote his narrative meter-little is known about Shakespeare because he did not write about himself, nor did he publish his own plays, he made his money by writing plays that were performed for an reference-his first play was The