This document provides biographical information about William Shakespeare in three sections. It details his early life and schooling in Stratford, his career as an actor and playwright in London from 1589-1616, and his later retirement. Shakespeare wrote over 30 plays and published two narrative poems before retiring and passing away in 1616. His plays were collected and published as the First Folio in 1623, preserving his works. The document also shares 16 famous quotes from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

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2. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright widely
regarded as the greatest writer in English language. He is often called as
England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. Shakespeare was born
on or about 23 April in 1564. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glover
and commodities merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was from a
gentry class. His parents, John and Mary, were married about 1557.
Shakespeare grew up in the Tudor market town of Stratford-on-Avon, a
lovely village surrounded by extensive, unspoiled woods. He was the
eldest son and had several sisters and one brother. By 1568, John had
risen through the rank of town government and he held he position of
high bailiff, similar to the mayor.
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William did his primary schooling in the local grammar school in
Stratford where he lived with his parents. At the age of 18, in 27th
November 1582, William married Anne Hathaway, a local farmer’s
daughter who was eight years his senior. Six months after their
marriage, their first daughter Susanna was born and baptized on 26th
May 1583. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two
years later and were baptized on 2nd February 1585.
William’s life can be divided into three periods, his first 20 years in
Stratford, which includes his schooling, early marriage and fatherhood;
the next 25 years as an actor and playwright in London; and the last 5
years in retirement back in Stratford where he enjoyed moderate wealth
gained from his theatrical successes. The first two periods are referred
to as the “dark years” due to lack of information about Shakespeare.

3. William Shakespeare
Shakespeare left his school at his 15th age and took some sort of job,
since this was the period of his father’s financial difficulty. At some
point during the “dark years”, William began his career with a London
theatrical company, probably in 1589, for he was already an actor and
playwright of some note in 1592. Shakespeare wrote and acted for
Pembroke’s Men as well as numerous others, in particular Strange’s
Men, which later became the Chamberlain’s Men, with whom William
remained for the rest of his career.
In 1592, the Plague closed the theaters for about two years. At this time
Shakespeare started writing narrative poetry. The most notable were
“Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece”. Both were dedicated to
the Earl of Southampton, whom scholars accept as Shakespeare’s
friend.
During this same year Shakespeare also started to write sonnets. Again
when the theaters reopened in 1594, he returned to play writing and
stopped publishing poetry. Shortly before his retirement, his sonnets
were published without his consent in the year 1609.
In the year 1596, Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet died at the age of 11.
This was of great loss to Shakespeare. But this did not interrupt
Shakespeare’s career. In 1599, in London, he became one of the
partners in the new Globe Theater which was built by the Chamberlain’s
Men.
When King James of Scotland, cousin of Queen Elizabeth succeeded
her after her death in 1603, the Chamberlain’s Men was renamed the
King’s Men. Shakespeare’s popularity and productivity continued
uninterrupted. He also invested in real estate and , one year after his
retirement, he purchased a second theater, the Black friars Gatehouse,
in partnership with his actors.
Most of Shakespeare’s plays had never been published in anything
except pamphlet form, and were simply extant as acting scripts stored
in the Globe. The efforts of two of his company, John Heminges and
Henry Condell, preserved Shakespeare’s 36 plays in the First Folio.
Pericles which was the thirty seventh play was not included in the First
Folio.

4. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, and was buried two days
later in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church where he was baptized
exactly 52 years earlier. The cause of his death was not reported. In1623
the same year when Shakespeare’s widow, Anne Hathaway
Shakespeare, died, the first collection of Shakespeare’s works was
published. The published collection was known as the First Folio. (The
word “folio” refers to a book made up of sheets of paper folded once to
form two leaves of equal size, or four pages.)
The First Folio did not include Pericles, Prince of Tyre or The Two Noble
Kinsmen. The First Folio contained eighteen plays which had never
been previously published. These eighteen plays included: All’s Well
That Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; The Comedy of
Errors; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Henry VI, Part One; Henry VIII; Julius
Caesar; King John; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Taming of the
Shrew; The Tempest; Timon of Athens; Twelfth Night; Two Gentlemen of
Verona; and The Winter’s Tale. The other eighteen plays which were
included in the First Folio had been published before. It was published
as a quarto edition. (The word “Quarto” refers to a book made up of
sheets of paper folded twice to form four leaves of equal size, or eight
pages.)
In 1632, the Second collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays was
published as the Second Folio. It was a reprint of the First Folio but
many changes were made in order to modernize the spellings and
correct stage directions and names.
The Third Folio was published in 1663 and it contained corrections to
the text of the Second Folio. It also introduced errors that were not
found in the previous editions. The Third Folio was again reprinted in
the year 1664 and it included within it seven new plays. One of these
plays, Pericles, is generally accepted as Shakespeare’s work even
though some believe another dramatist may have collaborated.
The Fourth Folio was published in 1685 and it was the last of the Folio
editions of the plays.

5. William Shakespeare
Famous William Shakespeare quotes
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1. Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more
precious dear than life.
2. I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is
the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
3. Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
4. I would be better to be eaten to death with rust than to be
scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
5. I will praise any man that will praise me.
6. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
7. I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
8. I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
9. When I first saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you
knew.
10. Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training
grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as
your solitude subsides
11. Speak low, if you speak love.
12. An overflow of good converts to bad.”
13. “What's done can't be undone.”
14. “If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that,
surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.”
15. “Say as you think and speak it from your souls.”
16. “Give thy thoughts no tongue.”