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William Shakespeare is a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. He thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.
At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an when he finished school the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer's daughter. She was eight years older than him. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585, Shakespeare his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knew why he left or he did between 1585 and 1592.
At twenty-eight, he moved to London and a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He an actor, and he also wrote plays. He acted in his own plays. He didn't make money from his writing, but he became by acting. At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went back to his . He died at the age of fifty-two in 1616.
