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     Shakespear was bon in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, located in the center
of England.  On April 23, 1564.  His father, John, was a glove-maker and married
Mary Arden.  They settled in a home in Henley Street, in Stratford.  This is where
he attended school.  This is where he started to get his ideas for plots and
characters for his plays.
 
   In November he married Anne Hathaway.  He was 18 and she was 26.  They
had 3 children; Susanna, and a set of twins; Hamnet and Judith.
  
  Shakespear left Stratford for London and became a professional actor and play
writer.  His reputation for this started in 1592.  His first two works published were
poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.  Most of his other worls were
not printed til 1609.  In 1594, he joined a theater company called Lord
Chamberlain's Men.  He did this for almost twenty years, performing in, on average,
two plays a year.   He was very successful and became weathly in 1597.  He bought
New Place in Stratford at this time.
 
  In 1599 The Lord Chamberlain's Men built The Globe.  It was also known as "the
wooden O".  In 1613, The Globe was burnt down during a performance of
Henery VIII.  It was rebuilt the following year.
    
     Over all Shakespear wrote about 37 plays in his career.  He died on April 23,
1616.


Durband, Alan. Shakespear Made Easy. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational
     Series, Inc., 1985
"About Shakespear-William Shakespear: An Outline of His Life". The
     Shakespeare Birth Place Trust- About Shakespear. 6 December 1999
     <http/www.shakespeare.org.uk/about_shake.htm>

                                             A Few Facts About This Play
The story of Hamlet was first told by Saxo Grammaticus in 1514 as The History
of Denmark. Then Thomas Kyd wrote his own verson off of Grammatics.  Hamlet was
first acted out in 1599. It was entered in The Stationers Register in 1602.

Durband, Alan.Shakespear Made Easy. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational
     Series, Inc., 1985