Romeo and Juliet

             Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, these amazing plays all originated from the
             single mind of William Shakespeare. The plays in which Shakespeare wrote, he wrote out
             of a very small educated mind a distinct love for the bible and of course, an imagination.
             The plays in which Shakespeare wrote were all written as an adult to, leaving his past to
             be misled into false claims. Shakespeare never wrote and autobiography and much is not
             known about his childhood sense it was never a real corner stone for people who enjoyed
             his plays and poems to think about, but as the saying goes, you can't understand your
             future till you understand your past. This strictly helps us interpret why each and every
             persons childhood, famous or not, is important. Do you know what kind of childhood
             Shakespeare had? Do you know where he started from?
             William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the Province of
             Warwickshire England in 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary ( Arden ) Shakespeare.
             Stratford was a relatively prosperous market town ( Loxton 13 ) in middle England, which
             had a fairly large population. When William was three months old, the plague raged in
             Stratford ( Lee 10 ) and took the lives of many, and killed one out of every seven that was
             living in the town at that time. Lucky William and the Shakespeare family escaped the
             plague, and as from records, no one in the Shakespeare family had contracted the awful
             The Shakespeare family was a close-knit one, and they had to be in those days.
             William Shakespeare's family consisted of John, the father, Mary the mother, 3 brothers,
             Gilbert, Edmund, Richard, 4 sisters, Joan, Ann, another Joan, and Margaret, along with
             Shakespeare's Grandfather and Grandmother( rarely heard of ). Although they could
             escape the plague they could not escape the overwhelming commonness of the death of
             infants in that time ( Lee 10 ). Mary the mother of William Shakespe...

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