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Life and Times of William Shakespeare

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• William Shakespeare was born in the depths of the night.

• When William was around 8 his dad took him to a play.

• Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare got married.

• Susannah was born to Anne and William.

• Shakespeare had twins named Judith and Hamnet.

• Shakespeare left Stratford-Upon-Avon to go to London to work.

• Shakespeare wrote his first play.

• Shakespeare wrote a play called “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

• Nick Bottom turned into a donkey in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

• In a “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the queen of the fairies falls in love with a donkey.

• William Shakespeare and his friends built the Globe theater.

• When Julius Caesar died, the guys didn’t like him so they slaughtered him with knives.

• Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.

• Shakespeare’s theater, The Globe, burned down!

• Shakespeare’s son Hamnet died when .he was 11.

• The witches danced around a cauldron in “Macbeth”.

• In Macbeth the forest moved.

• William Shakespeare wrote “Romeo and Juliet”.

• Macbeth

• William Shakespeare died.

• After William died, he left Anne his second best bed in his will.