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· Mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a wealthy landowner
· By the age of 7, Shakespeare was probably attending the local grammar school
· In 1582, at the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway (26), the daughter of a farmer
who lived about a mile from Stratford
· Daughter Susanna (born in 1583) and twins, Hamnet and Judith (born in 1585;
Hamnet died in 1596)
· From 1585 to 1592, a period some scholars call ,,the lost years"
· From 1592 the recors about Shakespeare are much fuller.
· Sometime during the lost years Shakespeare moved to London and became part of the
city's busy theatrical life
· By 1594 he was a shareholder, or part owner, in one London's most popular acting
companies, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and at least six of his plays had been
produced
· In 1599 the company built the Globe Theatre, the most famous of Elizabethan theatres
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