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Born   April 23th?? - remembr 16 - end of the 16 cent.  
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Died   16 = 1616 also April 23rd  
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parents   John & Mary - one of 8 children (not all lived)  
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common problem at time of birth & continued through his life   plague  
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School?   Unsure - Latin Grammar - a long day studying Latin  
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Lost years?   Did not go to college apprentice to father  
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Married?   Anne Hathaway - 6 years older pregnant  
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children   3 - girl then girl + boy twins  
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Left wife & children for CAREER   1st - held horses2nd actor3rd playwright - principal playwright for Lord Chamberlain's men - King's men  
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made $$   10% of "gate"  
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Robert Green - what he called Shakespeare   "upstart crow" - 1st evidence of his writing  
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Vast RANGE of writing   early - comedies, histories, sonnetsearly history - Richard III  
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patron for poetry   Earl of Southhampton  
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sonnets?   Beautiful, highly structured love poems - 14 lines, set rhyme scheme  
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long poems   3 "Venus and Adonis"  
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Sonnets   1st - to patron Southhampton, lover?2nd - dark lady  
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how many plays   37 - a lot for a career at that time  
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where did he probably write them   pup - had light & food  
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1590s - big problem   plague killed 1000 a week in London if you contracted plague - 70% you would die  
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problem w/ theaters & plague   thought plague spread in theaters :-( closed them - once for 2 years  
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people's concept of theater & theater people   ungodly, immoral  
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closing Shakespeare's theatre - ?   took it apart & rebuild across the River Thames = GLOBE  
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CREATE scene, action   words - language - audiences were used to that  
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women's parts   boys big part - man  
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parts Shakespeare wrote for himself   ghost of Hamlet's father bring actor's skills to his playwright work  
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