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William Shakespeare

William ShakespeareBorn: 23-Apr-1564
Birthplace: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Died: 23-Apr-1616
Location of death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Playwright, Poet

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth

Father: John Shakespeare (d. 1601)
Mother: Mary Arden (d. 1608)
Sister: Joan (b. 1558, d. plague)
Sister: Margaret (b. 1562, d. 1563)
Brother: Gilbert (tradesman, b. 1566, d. 3-Feb-1612)
Sister: Joan (b. 1569, d. 1646)
Sister: Anne (b. 1571, d. Apr-1579)
Brother: Richard (b. 1574, d. Feb-1613)
Brother: Edmund (b. 1580, d. 1607)
Wife: Anne Hathaway (b. 1556, d. 1623)
Daughter: Susanna (b. 26-May-1583)
Son: Hamnet (twin, b. 1585, d. 11-Aug-1596)
Daughter: Judith (twin, b. 1585)

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William Shakespeare

Wrote plays:
Henry VI, Part I (1590)
Henry VI, Part II (1590)
Henry VI, Part III (1590)
Richard III (1592)
Comedy of Errors (1592)
Titus Andronicus (1593)
Taming of the Shrew (1593)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594)
Love's Labour's Lost (1594, lost)
Romeo and Juliet (1594)
Richard II (1595)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
King John (1596)
The Merchant of Venice (1596)
Henry IV, Part I (1597)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)
Henry IV, Part II (1598)
Henry V (1599)
Julius Caesar (1599)
Much Ado About Nothing (1599)
As You Like It (1599)
The History of Sir John Oldcastle (1600, authorship uncertain)
Hamlet (1601)
Twelfth Night (1602)
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
All's Well That Ends Well (1603)
Measure for Measure (1604)
Othello (1604)
The London Prodigal (1604, authorship uncertain)
King Lear (1605)
Macbeth (1605)
A Yorkshire Tragedy (1605, authorship uncertain)
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
Coriolanus (1607)
Timon of Athens (1607)
Pericles Prince of Tyre (1608)
Cymbeline (1609)
The Winter's Tale (1610)
The Tempest (1611)
Henry VIII (1612)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1612, authorship uncertain)
The History of Cardeni (1613, authorship uncertain, but believed to be a collaboration with John Fletcher; lost)



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