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William Shakespeare was borne in April 26 1564. He was he son of John Shakespeare. his unknown
birthday was April 23, St George's Day.His born in stratford-upon-Avon.In 1599, a partnership of
company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the Thames, which they called the Globe.
In 1608, the partnership also took over the Blackfriars indoor theatre. Records of Shakespeare's property
purchases and investments indicate that the company made him a wealthy man.[33] In 1597, he bought the
second-largest house in Stratford, New Place, and in 1605, he invested in a share of the parish tithes in Stratford.[34]

Some of Shakespeare's plays were published in quarto editions from 1594. By 1598, his name had become a selling point and
began to appear on the title pages.[35] Shakespeare continued to act in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright.
The 1616 edition of Ben Jonson's Works names him on the cast lists for Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Sejanus, His Fall (1603).[36]
The absence of his name from the 1605 cast list for Jonson’s Volpone is taken by some scholars as a sign that his acting career was nearing its end.
[37] The First Folio of 1623, however, lists Shakespeare as one of "the Principal Actors in all these Plays", some of which were first staged after Volpone,
although we cannot know for certain what roles he played.[38] In 1610, John Davies of Hereford wrote that "good Will" played "kingly" roles.[39] In 1709, Rowe
passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father.[40] Later traditions maintain that he also played Adam in As You Like It and the
Chorus in Henry V,[41] though scholars doubt the sources of the information.[42]

Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford during his career. In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford,...