William Shakespeare Research Paper

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William Shakespeare was known to have no birth records. But he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, which makes scholars think he was born near or on April 23rd, 1564. Most scholars think he was born on that date so thats what they refer to when he was born.
William Shakespeare was about 5’9 and around one hundred and fifty pounds according to scholars. He was right handed. He had long curly hair and a trimmed beard. He had green eyes, and he was white.
William Shakespeare's home town was about one hundred and three miles west of london. His hometown was known as Stratford upon Avon. His hometown was a market town with a country road near Avon river.
William Shakespeare was the third child of a man named John Shakespeare, a leather merchant,
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Most of the ideas and evidence were brought up because of his weird unknown backgrounds. In The Holy Trinity Church they have record of a William Shakespeare, but no records of him being an actor or playwright.
But today many of William Shakespeare's poems and stories are very famous for his characters having a wide range of emotions and conflicts. William Shakespeare has won no awards of any kind because awards like Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Award of Literature did not exist in William Shakespeare's lifetime, he couldn't have won a prize or award even if he tried.
William Shakespeare had over thirty eight plays, and one hundred and fifty four sonnets, his most famous of them all by most scholars and authors is, “Romeo and Juliet”, which is a very good story. Romeo and Juliet is about Revenge, Love, and Secret Marriage.The first part of the story is a bunch of jokes, balls, and poetry, but the second part of the story Romeo and Juliet is tragic and sad death, stealing and revenge. In the story Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is about thirteen or fourteen years old, and Romeo is about fourteen or fifteen years old. Romeo and Juliet meet and they slowly fall in love, but their parents won't allow them to be together, so they secretly meet and fall in

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