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Shakespears Music

William Shakespeare, who was recognized as one of literature?s greatest influences, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1564. His baptism was held on April 23rd, but there were no records on the date of his birth, therefore his birthday was pretended to be on April 23rd, 1564. William Shakespeare was the third of eight children to be born of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. William had composed 154 sonnets and written 37 plays through which he added about 1,500 words to the English language, some of which are still used by modern humans nowadays. For instance; cold-blooded, employer, to gossip, to misquote, and worthless.

In 1599 Shakespeare paid the acting company a particular amount of money which made 12.5 percent of the cost of building the Globe Theater. The Globe Theatre, in the Southwark district of London, was the venue at which the best known stage works were first produced. History says that Shakespeare made elaborate plans of where should he place the music in his p...

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