The Life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He was one of the most influential and skillful writers in the history of literature. He was born to John Shakespeare in a small town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, which was his family home in England (Rothwell 12). His birthday is assumed to be on April 23rd because, according to this period, newborn babies received baptism three days after birth. The historical documents indicate that his baptism occurred on April 26th, 1564. William Shakespeare spent his childhood being raised in his hometown. He had a huge family, consisting of seven siblings: four sisters and three brothers. However, three of his sisters died leaving him with just one. The purpose of this paper is to focus on William’s family life, his career path, his religion, and the impact of his writing work. At the age of seven, Shakespeare and his brothers attended a local grammar school, which lasted all day with no extra curriculum activities. However, at the age of fourteen he was pulled out of school for the unknown reasons (Rothwell 15). When he was eighteen, he impregnated his 26-year old girlfriend, Ann Hathaway, whom he was forced to marry. Later, the couple had three children: Susana, Hamnet and Judith, but his son, Hamnet, died at a very …show more content…
His short poems such as sonnets which have a structure of fourteen lines with three groups or quatrains of four lines which make up the problem of the subject of the poem (Potter 37). This allowed the author to build a rising pattern of complication which is later resolved in the last two lines of the poem. His poems are also written in iambic pentameter, a structure where each line has ten syllables or beats with a stress on each and every second beat. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. The sonnets explain every emotion from pain, death, desire, happiness and