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William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died on 23 April 1616; he was 52 when he died and was buried in Stratford Church. His father was John Shakespeare and died in 1601; his mother was Mary Arden and died in 1608. He married Anne Hathaway, a farmer's daughter. They had three children: Susanna who was born in 1583 and two twins, a boy who is Hammet and a girl who is Judith. Susanna was the eldest daughter and had no education, she married John Hall in 1607 and they had a daughter and named her Elizabeth. Hammet was the only son of William Shakespeare, he died at the age of eleven and the cause was unknown. Judith is the youngest daughter of William Shakespeare and married Thomas Quiney and had three children. Shakespeare went to London between 1585 and 1592 and began to establish himself as an actor and playwright and his plays were performed only by the Lord Chamberlain's Men and later the name was changed to King's Men. Between 1589 and 1592 Shakespeare established his career and began to make a name for himself. They built their own theater across the Thames in south London, which they called "The Globe". The globe was built in 1599. In 1597 he purchased the second largest house in Stratford which he called New Place. William Shakespeare wrote a number of popular plays. Many of his plays, including "Romeo and Juliet" and "Macbeth", are still read and performed around the world, and there is some doubt as to whether anyone wrote plays and poets for him. The name of William Shakespeare became a selling point. William Shakespeare's career is divided into four periods. Starting from what is defined as an experimental period, which began around 1591 and ended... in the middle of the paper... facts about his activity. The first ''Lost Years'' are between 1578 and 1582 when he leaves school at the age of 14 and 1582 when he marries Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. The second ''Lost Years'' are between 1582 and 1592 the trials occurred between the time he was in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1589 and when he had to move to London in 1592. The First Folio was published by John Heminge and Henry Condell in 1623 and contains thirty-six plays although many of them were already in the fourth. The Foil was created seven years after William's death. The thirty-six plays of the First Folio are presented in order, the order is: first the comedies, then the stories and lastly the tragedies. The Folio includes all of Shakespeare's plays except Pericles, The Prince of Tyre, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and two "lost plays" which are Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won..