“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright, accepted in much of the world as the paramount of all dramatists, is perhaps the most famous writer in the history of English literature (Andrews). By composing plays, Shakespeare earned admiration from his late 16th and early 17th century contemporaries, but he may have looked to poetry for enduring fame (Fisch).
Shakespeare, his life was only well known about his plays and poems. He had written many famous Plays such as: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and etc. and his illustrious poems were the Sonnets (“William Shakespeare”). Many decades have passed since his passing and his plays and poems are still celebrated and recited out loud
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His father John Shakespeare, was a glover and supplies merchant but histories also show that he engaged in a variety of other enterprises (Harlan). His mother Mary, was a landed gentry or a land owner as they called it back then (History.com). Shakespeare was the third child of the family but he was one of the children that lived for a long time (Bradley). He had four sisters and four brothers (“Shakespeare”). Not a lot is known of Shakespeare’s childhood, which is the reason some people have been cynical of his aptitude to have written everything he wrote (Fisch). Shakespeare went to grammar school possibly the King's New School until the age of fourteen but he did not continue his schooling at a university (Andrews). Although Shakespeare's formal education ended at grammar school, his plays display that he was well-educated and cultured (“The plays of Shakespeare”). In 1582, at the time when Shakespeare was eighteen he wedded Anne Hathaway and had their first child, Susanna six months after their marriage in 1583 (“William Shakespeare”). After two years, they had twins named Judith and Hamnet (Harlan). It is estimated that Shakespeare reached London around 1588 and began to establish himself as an actor and playwright