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Shakespeare: Biography
William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet
who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other
writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many
countries as his.
Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a
Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a leather shop. John
Shakespeare was a well known and respected man in the town. He held several
important local governmental positions. William Shakespe....
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