Read the text and answer the question!     William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23rd April 1564. His father John was a successful local businessman, and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner. Relatively prosperous, it was likely the family paid for William's education although there was no evidence he attended university.     In 1582, William, aged only 18, married an older woman named Anne Hathaway. They had three children named Susanna, Hamnet, and Juliet. Their only son, Hamnet, died at the age of just 11. After his marriage, information about the life of Shakespeare was sketchy, but it seemed he spent most of his time in London – writing and acting in his plays.     It seemed Shakespeare didn’t mind being absent from his family – he only returned home during Lent when all the theatres were closed. It was thought that during the 1590s, he wrote the majority of his sonnets. This was a time of prolific writing and his plays developing a good deal of interest and controversy. His early plays were mainly comedies (e.g. Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer’s Night Dream) and histories (e.g. Henry V).     By the early Seventeenth Century, Shakespeare had begun to write plays in the genre of tragedy. These plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, often hinge on some fatal errors or flaws in the lead character and provide fascinating insights into the darker aspects of human nature. These later plays were considered Shakespeare’s finest achievements. (Adapted from: www. biographyonline.net, accessed on January 6, 2019) The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to ....