Shakespeare was a famous writer who was born over 400 years ago.

No one really knows when he was born. He married a woman named Anne and had 3 children.At the age of 26, he started writing plays that

were really funny,scary,romantic and sad for example Romeo and Juliet.We still watch his plays today.Did you know William Shakespeare

build part of one of the most famous theatres known as The Globe?Sadly, the roof got burned in the 16th century by a cannon.He performed his plays in a theatre called The Theatre.He then sadly died

at the age of 52 in 1616.You could not have bought his primary books

until a few years later at 1623.