William Shakespeare is a famous playwright and poet. He was born in 1564 and died in 1616. At the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men , later known as the King's Men. Then, he began to build his own play house in London, the Globe Theatre. Shakespeare wrote many comedy, historical, romance and tragedy plays such as Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Shakespeare's Sonnets were the last of his non-dramatic works to be printed on 1609.