Shakespeare (1564-1616) Age of 52
Although William Shakespeare is acknowledged as one of literature’s greatest influences, very little is known about his past life before he started writing his plays. What is known about his life comes from “administrator records, court records, marriage certificates, wills, and his tombstone.” Birth It has not officially recorded when William Shakespeare was born but what we know is the earliest form of record is his baptism certificate which took place on Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564.
Siblings
Shakespeare was the third child of John and Mary Shakespeare. The first two daughters and William were followed by Gilbert and Richard who died in 1612 and 1613. Edmund was the sixth son and was the followed by
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He also worked with in grain and was sometimes was labelled as a glove maker by traders.
William's mother
William's mother Mary Arden married John Shakespeare in 1557. She was the youngest daughter in her family. After the death of her father she inherited much of her father’s landowning and farming estate.
Shakespeare’s Education.
It has been assumed that the King’s New Grammar School taught boys the basics of reading and writing. Although nothing has been proven but it has been assumed that William attended this school since it existed to teach the children of Stratford .Similarly a lack of evidence suggests that William, whose works are studied globally at Universities, never attended one himself due to the lack of resources at the time.
Shakespeare’s marriage
A certificate dated November the 28th, 1582, exposes that eighteen year old William married twenty-six Anne Hathaway. She was pregnant at the time and barely seven months later, had they had his first daughter, Susanna. Anne never left Stratford, living there her entire