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William
Title: William
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 937 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
William
For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, allegedly on April 23, 1564. Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564. Young William was born of John Shakespeare, a glover and leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a landed heiress. William, according to the church register, was the third of eight children the Shakespeare household--three of …showed first 75 words of 937 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 937 total…William Shakespeare's legacy is a body of work that will never again be equaled in Western civilization. His words have endured for 400 years, and still reach across the centuries as powerfully as ever. Even in death, he leaves a final piece of verse as his epitaph:
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.
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