William Shakespeare was a famous poet and playwright in the Renaissance. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom in 1564. He was the third child of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, and he had five other siblings. It is thought that Shakespeare attended from King’s New School in Stratford, but there are no records to confirm it. When he was eighteen, William married Anne Hathaway; they had one girl and twins, but one of the twins died at age eleven. After the twins were born in 1585, there are seven years of Shakespeare’s life that there are no records on. This period is sometimes referred to as the “lost years.” The main theory is that William arrived in London around the late 1580s and was a horse attendant at one of the theatres. …show more content…
Later, he became the managing partner of an acting company which later changed its named to the King’s Men. His works became popular and he gained the attention of many nobility. In 1597, he bought New House, which was the second biggest house in Stratford, for his family. He did not go there often; for it was far from London, where he wrote and acted plays. Along with his business partners, Shakespeare built a theatre, called the Globe, on Thames River in 1599. He ended up making more financial investments, which gave him time to focus on his plays. His early works were histories and comedies, and most of his later works were tragedies and tragicomedies. William Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, and he wrote thirty-seven plays in his