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Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare's family life
John Shakespeare married Mary Arden, and together they had eight children. John and Mary lost two daughters as infants, so William became their eldest child. William was sent to the local grammar school.
William would have lived with his family on Henley Street until he turned eighteen. He married Anne Hathaway, who was twenty-six. Together they had three children. Their first daughter, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet died when he was just 11 years old. -
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Shakespeare's works
Shakespeare's works include 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, 154 sonnets, and a variety of other poems.Shakespeare wrote many of his most famous tragedies, such as King Lear and Macbeth, as well as great romances, like The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet -
Sonnet ''To be or not to be''
"To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase of a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse. The opening line is one of the most widely known in modern English literature.