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Read the text and answer the question! William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23rd April 1564. His father William 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, 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 developed 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 error or flaw 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) According to the text, the correct statement is ...