Shakespeare A to Z | Shakespeare, Life and Career
William Shakespeare lived 52 years, married once, fathered three children, bought a house and lands, and wrote more than a million enduring words of lyric and dramatic literature. For scholars the lack of reliable evidence about the playwright’s life is frustrating. Compared with most playwrights of his era, Shakespeare left behind a fair number of documents about his professional, financial, and personal life, but this material provides little sense of what Shakespeare was like as a living, feeling person. Many critics have tried to discover an image of the writer in his works, but this...
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