William Shakespeare was not only the author of around ... Here are 13 curious facts about the genius who wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and several other masterpieces. The mystery around the man behind ...

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The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

SEE ALSO: Like books? Get our free Book Pages newsletter about bestsellers, authors and more The life story of William Shakespeare, as it’s usually told, is that he left Stratford-upon-Avon to ...

Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...