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William Shakespeare was a really famous writer from a long time ago. He lived during a time called the Elizabethan Age, which was between 1558 and 1603. He was born in a place called Stratford Upon-Avon on 23 April, 1564. His dad's name was John Shakespeare, and his mom was Mary Arden.

When he was young, he went to a special school in Stratford-on-Avon where he learned different languages like Latin and Greek. When he got older, he fell in love with a woman named Anne Hathaway, and they got married in 1582. 

He went to a big city called London in 1592. That's when he started to become famous for writing plays. One of his first successful plays was called "Henry IV, Part I." After that, he wrote many more plays that people really liked. Some of them were "Richard III," "Richard II," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

In 1595, he became a part-owner of a group of actors called "The Lord Chamberlain's Men," and they performed his plays. He wrote lots of other famous plays like "The Merchant of Venice" and "Much Ado About Nothing."

He also helped build a famous theater called "The Globe Theatre" in 1599. Some of his most well-known plays like "Othello" and "Hamlet" were written in the early 1600s. He wrote his last play, "The Tempest," in 1610.

After all of this, he went back to his hometown in 1610. He passed away on 23 April in 1616, which was also his birthday. They buried him in a church called the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-Upon Avon.
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