William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. His life was tragic and relatively disgusting. Shakespeare was a writer of great stories such as Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. He was born at Stratford Upon Avon. As a young boy Shakespeare was the 3rd of 8 children. His father pulled him out of school. Instead of apprenticing to his father he apprenticed a butcher down the street.         William …showed first 75 words of 444 total…

…showed last 75 words of 444 total…street.         William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. His life was tragic and relatively disgusting. Shakespeare was a writer of great stories such as Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. He was born at Stratford Upon Avon.         As a young boy Shakespeare was the 3rd of 8 children. His father pulled him out of school. Instead of apprenticing to his father he apprenticed a butcher down the street.