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Shakespeare's Birthdate

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William Shakespeare died 400 years ago on the 23rd of April 1616. He is praised as the greatest writer in the history of the English language. He was married to Anne Hathaway and had three children: Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. He was a play writer, actor, and poet in the Elizabethan era, and is mostly known for the plays “Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Othello”, and “Macbeth”, some of which are seen as the finest works in history. His birthdate is unknown but he was baptised on the 26th of April 1564, and therefore the 23rd of April 1564 is commonly used as his birthdate, but that is just a qualified guess. Shakespeare shaped the English language in inexplicable ways but I am going to try anyway.

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