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About his life there is no sure information because of the lacks of documents.
He had early education from a tutor and at seven entered the Free School in Stratford where he learned a little Latin and even less Greek.
When he was about thirteen he was removed from school and apprenticed to a butcher, for an unknown period of time; at age eighteen, he was obliged to marry Anne Hathaway, eight years older than him and he had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith, very early.
He moved to London where he becme an actor and a playwrite even if we still doensn't know when or why he decided to leave his hometown.
Il London he entered in a company, Lord Chamberlanlan's Men, that later changed its name in King's Men when King James ascended to the trhone, and in 1592 became the principal shareholder of that company.
In spite of all taht it must be said that Shakespeare is mainly famous in the contemporary world for his tragedies (expacially his greatest tragedies)
One of his most important tragedies, and the most famous among the teenagers, is Romeo and Juliet usually attributed to the year 1595 when he was thirty-one.
The ballet opens on the pre-dawn streets of Verona, the city where the story is set.
The tragedy deals with the impossible love between two teenagers that belong to feuding families, their untimely deaths ultimately unite the two families.
Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical and opera; In the 20th century the play has been adapted as a film in 1936, as a stage musical "West Side Story" in 1950 and maybe the most contemporary adaptation of this tragedy is the film Romeo+Juliet in 1996.
About the film "Romeo+Juliet" it must be said that the original tragedy disappear behind motorbikes and cars that distor the sense of the play.