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As most of us know William Shakespeare grew up in Scotland. He was one of eight children. However, only five survived and one of those five happened to be him. He was the oldest boy in his family. We are not 100% sure when Shakespeare was born, but from what we hear it is April 23, 1564. He went to school like any normal child, but left at the age of fifteen. Instead of school he worked for his father, a business man. Years went by and when he turned eighteen he married Anne Hathaway. Who happened to be twenty-six (practically twice his age) and pregnant. Together Shakespeare and Anne had a daughter and twins, a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, his son died at age eleven, for a reason we do not know. He loved writing stories and plays because of this he moved to London to find his dream on the stage. By the time he moved to London he was considered a play writer. Shakespeare continued to write plays and sonnets. He died on April 23, 1616. He wrote thirty-seven plays and inspired many people. Today, sonnets happen to be very popular especially for gentlemen. Sonnets are lyric poems composed of 14 lines. It has a rhyme pattern showing different thoughts, moods, or ideas. There are two forms of sonnets; one from Italy (Petrarcahn) and one from England (Shakespearean). After William Shakespeare lived in London for two years he started writing English sonnets. English sonnets were made for less beautiful in rhymes compared to the Italian sonnets. He wrote a total of 154 sonnets. The first twenty-six of them were to a young man who didn’t want to get married. Seventeen of them were urging the same man to get married. The next 101 were also written to a young man, but these showed a variety of themes, such as beauty and bitterness to the Young man. The last twenty-seven sonnets were written to a woman. Many people believe that Shakespeare was having an affair with this woman.