English Literature / Unit 7 ENL 0601 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Shakespeare's Life and the First Folio
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The idea
William Shakespeare, fifteen sixty-four to sixteen sixteen, was born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. A London actor and playwright, he was a partner in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later the King's Men. His colleagues Heminges and Condell published thirty-six plays in the First Folio of sixteen twenty-three.
In practice
Stratford, London, the Folio.
Where people slip
Few facts survive about his life.
Your place on the trail
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