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April 23, 1564 Macbeth was born, although no birth records existed. Holy Trinity Church records show that William Shakespeare was baptized at in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564, approximately three days after his birth.

William was John Shakespeare and Mary Arden's third child. William had two sisters which were both older than him, Joan and Judith, and William also had three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. Before William's birth, John Williams dad became a successful man involved in wholesale trade. Next to no records exist of William's childhood, and practically none about his education. What was known about william is that every morning growing up as a child, he would wake up and get approval from his father
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Just a few years earlier in the years 1593-94 William Shakespeare dedicated two poems to a man some think was Williams gay lover the Earl of Southampton.

November 28, 1582, in Worcester, in Canterbury Province. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway was from a small village a mile west of stratford, in Shottery. William was 8 years younger than Anne, William was 18 and Anne was 26. As it turns out, Anne was also pregnant. Their first child, a baby girl named susanna was born May 26, 1583. Then only two years later, on February 2, 1585, William and Anne had twins Hamnet and Judith were born. Hamnet died later from an unknown causes at the age of 11.

What is commonly said is that William Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23, 1616, Trinity Church records show he was placed in his grave on April 25, 1616.
In William's will, he left the a lot of his possessions to his oldest daughter, Susanna. Though authorized to a third of his fortune, Anne his wife seemed to have received very little. This caused speculation that she had fallen out of Williams favor, or that Anne and William were not close. However, there is next to no evidence leading anyone to believe the two had a difficult

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