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Period: 1524 to
bubonic plague
"Shakespeare lived through an outbreak of the bubonic plague in London (1524-94)" https://www.biographyonline.net/poets/facts-shakespeare.html -
1582
Willliam and Anne
He married Anne Hathaway when he was only 18; -
William's first play
Shakespeare's first play was "Henry VI, Part One"
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Death of a son
william and his wife bury their son.
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Globe Theater
The theater where most of william's plays are first acted out.
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Whiches
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SONNETS
"Publisher Thomas Thorpe prints a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets"
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Bones
"Shakespeare’s grave includes a curse against moving his bones." https://www.biographyonline.net/poets/facts-shakespeare.html -
Birds
"In 1890, Eugene Schiffelin an American ‘Bardolator’ decided to import every kind of bird mentioned in Shakespeare but not native to America. This included a flock of 60 starlings released in New York. Starlings have now driven many native birds to the edge of extinction." https://www.biographyonline.net/poets/facts-shakespeare.html
