guide: welcome to stratford, where shakespeare lived. i'd like to start by telling you something about shakespeare's life.
midlands of england. his father was glove maker.
william shakespeare went to school when he was seven, but have to leave at the age of 14 because his family had financial problem.
when he was 18, shakespeare married a farmer's daughter called anne hathaway. william and anne had three children. after that, no one is sure what shakespeare did but, in 1592, he left his family and went to london to become an actor.
soon he started writing poems, and one of his longest poems" venus and adonis", was so successful that it made him famous. if he hadn't found a patron at this time, he wouldn't have become a famous writer.
by 1594, shakespeare was a well known actor and writer who wrote and performed for a theatre group called the king's men . shakespeare had stared plays in 1588 and, for the next 17 years, he wrote two plays a year. many of these were performed at the globe theatre near to the river thames in london. his five most famous plays are probably romeo and Juliet, written in 1596, A
