His two milestones are his birth and his death
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Shakespeare's parents had two daughters before William, but they both died as babies long before William's birth.
Those are the first lines of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Two monarchs reigned during Shakespeare's career: Elizabeth I and James I
John and Mary Shakespeare had two children (both girls) who died as infants before William was born in 1564. All of his siblings that grew to adulthood were younger than him.
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer, and Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt are two relatively recent ones.