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Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a great English
playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is
considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No
other writer's plays have been produced so many times or
read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare
was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a
Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a
leather shop. John Shakespeare was a well known and
respected man in the town. He held several important local
governmental positions. William Shakespeare's mother was
Mary Arden. Though she was the daughter of a local farmer,
she was related
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