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He was an English poet dramatist and also an actor He was known as the greatest dramatist all the time and called English national poet Shakespeare was born at Stratford a market town on the river Avon in warwickshire on April 23 1564 He was the third child of eight children of John Shakespeare His father John Shakespeare was has more than one occupation like a butcher a glover and a farmer In 1565 John Shakespeare was chosen as an alderman and bailiff mayor of Stratford in 1568 And Mary Arden his mother was a daughter of the landowner Shakespeare allegedly attended a grammar school in the town Education at Stratford school was based on Latin grammar rhetoric and composition He was learned about how to to read write and speak the language practically well and studying some of the Classic history moralists and poets And it was forbidden to speak English in the upper forms At fifteen years old Shakespeare left school He did not go to the University And at eighteen he married Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than him So Anne was 26 years old at that time
