ocr: shakespeare, Willam,1569-1616 English dramatist and poet, considered the greatest of all playwrights; b. Strattord -upon-Aron. He was the son of stratford pusinessman and probably attended the local grammar school, acquiring a grounding in the lassics. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Little else is known of his life pefore 1592, when he appeared as a playwright in London. He may have been a member of a traveling theater group, and some evidence in his early style suggests he may have been a schoolmaster n1599 he became an actor and playwright for the Lord Chamberlain ...
