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We Are Writers People ✒️REALLY
Think about it.🙄 We are in good company! 🥂 How cool is this?🤙
These writers are just people, like us, who love words.
William Shakespeare was just amazing!
Considered the greatest English-speaking writer in history and known as England’s national poet, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) has had more theatrical works performed than any other playwright.
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep…”
-Hamlet, Act III, Scene I
Shakespeare was a family man.
At 18 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway (1556–1616), who was 8 years older than him because she was pregnant. — Shotgun wedding. A daughter, Susanna, was born less than seven months later in May 1583. Twins Hamnet and Judith followed in February 1585. Susanna and Judith would live to old age, while Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died at 11.
