William shakespeare is probably the most famous play wright im history . He was born on 23 April 1546 in startford-upon-Avon in England . He was one of eight brothers and sisters . His father, John shakespeare was a successful businessmen . William went to school in stratford and learned Latin and Greek, but he didn't go to university . At the age of fifteen he went to work in his father's business . When he was eighteen, he met and fell in love with Anne Hathaway . She was eight years older than him . They got married in November 1582, and six months later their daughter susanna was born . In1585 they had twins, Hamnet and Judith . Little is know about the next seven years of his life . We only know that he moved to London, leaving Anne and yhe children is stratford, and that by 1592 he was writing plays and working as an actor . His plays were very popular and he made a lot of money . In 1597 he bought a big house in stratford for his family, but he stayed in London for another thirteen years . He continued to write and act and also bought a theater. In1611 he finally retired and moved back to startford to live in the house he had bought . In total, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets (fourteen-line poems) . Some of his love poems are adderssed to a married woman, and some of them are addressed to a young man . Nobody knows the identity of these two people . Shakespeare died in startford on his birthday, on 23 April 1616, and was buried in the church where he had benn christened exactil 52 years earlier.