Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at Kings University College at Western University. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeares Romances and of essays on Shakespeares plays and their editing. Although some think that sometime between 16 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.īarbara A. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. The bulk of Shakespeares working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. Hamnet, Shakespeares only son, died in childhood. The couple had three childrenan older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on Englands Avon River.
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