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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Leoff, Eve
Affiliation: Department Of English, Hofstra University

Introduction

Shakespeare's Life

The known facts of Shakespeare's life are few, especially in view of our
great curiosity about the creator of such a body of literature. Thus, there
has grown up an extensive array of biographical information, but it is
necessarily conjectural. A sketch of the facts that are known follows.

Early Years

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and christened in Stratford Church
on April 26. Since he died on April 23, 1616, which is also St. ...

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