William Shakespeare Research Paper

William Shakespeare, a well known English poet, is a world famous playwright, actor, and writer. Everyone knows Shakespeare’s poems, plays, and other famous writings, but his early life is a mystery to many. What is known about the early life of William Shakespeare is limited because information can only be found in church records, bills, and court documents, but through his writings in his adult life, he became a household name. Because the only records of Shakespeare's early life was from the Church, the first time he is heard of is when he was baptized as a baby and then the next was when he was eighteen years old and married (“Shakespeare’s Early Childhood”). William Shakespeare is known to have been born 23 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon

For example, as “Shakespeare’s Early Childhood” says, “You will know that Juliet was just fourteen when her parents were arranging her marriage, and Romeo wasn’t much older” (“Shakespeare’s Early Childhood”). In Shakespeare’s time, at a young age, children were taught to take on the adult world as soon as possible and women were already often pregnant before marriage. It was almost a bind to marry that woman (“Shakespeare’s Early Childhood”). Shakespeare got married when he was eighteen years old. He married Anne Hathaway when she was 26 years old and three months pregnant with his child. Shakespeare's first child's name was Susanna who was born six months after their wedding (“Shakespeare Facts: Read Facts About William Shakespeare”). Shakespeare was married on November 28, 1582 by the Bishop of Worcester. Anne Hathaway was the daughter of a local farmer. She was from Shottery, a small village about a mile west from where Shakespeare lived (“William Shakespeare Biography Poet, Playwright”). Two years after their first daughter was born, Shakespeare and his wife Anne gave birth to twins, a son named Hamnet and a daughter named Judith (“William Shakespeare: Anne Hathaway”). Susanna was the only child to give Shakespeare a granddaughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth died in 1670, without having any

Shakespeare left London and moved back to Stratford,where his wife and daughter lived, sometime around 1610-1630. By then, Shakespeare was a rich, wealthy, and well-known man. Shakespeare fell sick with some kind of illness around the spring of 1616 (“William Shakespeare”). On Shakespeare's death, he left his property to his daughter, Susanna (“Shakespeare Facts: Read Facts About William Shakespeare”). On his 52nd birthday on 23 April 1616, William Shakespeare was pronounced dead. He was then buried in the same Church that he was baptized in, Holy Trinity in Stratford. Shakespeare’s epitaph said, “‘Good friend for Jesus sake forbear / To dig the dust enclosed here! / Blest be the man that spares these stones, / And curst be he that moves my bones’” (“William