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Apr-1579)<br><b>Brother:</b> Richard (b. 1574, d. Feb-1613)<br><b>Brother:</b> Edmund (b. 1580, d. 1607)<br><b>Wife:</b> Anne Hathaway (b. 1556, d. 1623)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Susanna (b. 26-May-1583)<br><b>Son:</b> Hamnet (twin, b. 1585, d. 11-Aug-1596)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Judith (twin, b. 1585)<br><p> <a href="/event/558/000140138/">Debtor's Prison</a> (1587)<br> <a href="/event/722/000345684/">Proxy Baptism: Mormon</a> per 17-Aug-1991 <i>Salt Lake Tribune</i> article<br><p> <b>Rotten Library Page:</b><br><a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/authors/william-shakespeare/">William Shakespeare</a><p> <b>Wrote plays:</b><br> <i>Henry VI, Part I</i> (<tt>1590</tt>)<br><i>Henry VI, Part II</i> (<tt>1590</tt>)<br><i>Henry VI, Part III</i> (<tt>1590</tt>)<br><i>Richard III</i> (<tt>1592</tt>)<br><i>Comedy of Errors</i> (<tt>1592</tt>)<br><i>Titus Andronicus</i> (<tt>1593</tt>)<br><i>Taming of the Shrew</i> (<tt>1593</tt>)<br><i>Two Gentlemen of Verona</i> (<tt>1594</tt>)<br><i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (<tt>1594</tt>, lost)<br><i>Romeo and Juliet</i> (<tt>1594</tt>)<br><i>Richard II</i> (<tt>1595</tt>)<br><i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> (<tt>1595</tt>)<br><i>King John</i> (<tt>1596</tt>)<br><i>The Merchant of Venice</i> (<tt>1596</tt>)<br><i>Henry IV, Part I</i> (<tt>1597</tt>)<br><i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> (<tt>1597</tt>)<br><i>Henry IV, Part II</i> (<tt>1598</tt>)<br><i>Henry V</i> (<tt>1599</tt>)<br><i>Julius Caesar</i> (<tt>1599</tt>)<br><i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> (<tt>1599</tt>)<br><i>As You Like It</i> (<tt>1599</tt>)<br><i>The History of Sir John Oldcastle</i> (<tt>1600</tt>, authorship uncertain)<br><i>Hamlet</i> (<tt>1601</tt>)<br><i>Twelfth Night</i> (<tt>1602</tt>)<br><i>Troilus and Cressida</i> (<tt>1602</tt>)<br><i>All's Well That Ends Well</i> (<tt>1603</tt>)<br><i>Measure for Measure</i> (<tt>1604</tt>)<br><i>Othello</i> (<tt>1604</tt>)<br><i>The London Prodigal</i> (<tt>1604</tt>, authorship uncertain)<br><i>King Lear</i> (<tt>1605</tt>)<br><i>Macbeth</i> (<tt>1605</tt>)<br><i>A Yorkshire Tragedy</i> (<tt>1605</tt>, authorship uncertain)<br><i>Antony and Cleopatra</i> (<tt>1606</tt>)<br><i>Coriolanus</i> (<tt>1607</tt>)<br><i>Timon of Athens</i> (<tt>1607</tt>)<br><i>Pericles Prince of Tyre</i> (<tt>1608</tt>)<br><i>Cymbeline</i> (<tt>1609</tt>)<br><i>The Winter's Tale</i> (<tt>1610</tt>)<br><i>The Tempest</i> (<tt>1611</tt>)<br><i>Henry VIII</i> (<tt>1612</tt>)<br><i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i> (<tt>1612</tt>, authorship uncertain)<br><i>The History of Cardeni</i> (<tt>1613</tt>, authorship uncertain, but believed to be a collaboration with <a href="/people/352/000174827/">John Fletcher</a>; lost)<br><p> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=22388" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>