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What where William Shakespeare's most significant events in his personal life?
I was wondering about William Shakespeare about how come i never read any thing about his personal life.
We don't know a great deal about Shakespeare's personal life. He was christened on April 26, 1564, a fact that leads most scholars t conclude that he was born on the 23rd, since babies at that time were customarily christened when they were three days old. His parents were John Shakespeare, a glove-maker, and Mary Arden. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, who was a few years older than he, and their first child, Susannah, was born about six months later. he and Anne later had twins, Hamnet and Judith (1585). He left his home town, Stratford-upon-Avon, while he was still very young and became involved with the theatrical company, the Lord Chamberlain's Company, for which he wrote his plays. His son Hamnet died in 1596. After the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, King James I became the patron of the Lord Chamberlain's company, and it became the King's Company. There is a tradition, at least, that Shakespeare was one of the many translators who worked on the King James Bible. At the premier of Shakespeare's last play, Henry VIII (1613), the Globe Theater caught fire and burned to the ground. Shakespeare retired, went back to Stratford, and bought the biggest house in town, where he died on April 23, 1616. He is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford, with a famous epitaph deterring anyone from disturbing his grave.