William Shakespeare (english)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
One of the best known English playwrights. William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. He had one sister and one brother. He attended the local grammar school and when he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway, eight years older girl from a nearby village. They had two daughters – Susan and Judith and a son Hamnet. Hamnet and Judith were twins, but Hamnet died at the age of eleven. In 1592 he left his wife and children and became an actor and playwright in London where existed two very favourite theatres - The Theatre and The Swan - under the patronage of the King.