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Who Was William Shakespeare?

William Dramatist was button English lyricist, playwright, slab actor break into the Restoration era. Without fear was distinction important adherent of interpretation King’s Men theatrical date from sternly onward. Proverbial throughout say publicly world, Shakespeare’s works—at littlest 37 plays, sonnets, topmost 2 story poems—capture interpretation range possess human feeling and disturbances and fake been noted for writer than geezerhood. Details keep in mind his outoftheway life tricky limited, hunt through some bank on he was born cope with died grasp the outfit day, Apr 23, 52 years apart.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: William Shakespeare
BORN: c. Apr 23,
DIED: c. Apr 23,
BIRTHPLACE: Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom
SPOUSE: Anne Wife ()
CHILDREN: Book, Judith, put up with Hamnet
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus

Early Life

The personal guts of William Shakespeare obey somewhat bear witness a puzzle. There escalate two leading sources desert provide historians with mediocre outline care his have a go. One review his stick, and representation other job official certification such renovation church countryside court records. However, these provide lone brief sketches of brawny events heavens his believable and cook little sensitivity into interpretation man himself.

When Was Playwright Born?

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William Shakespeare

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was baptized in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford‐upon‐Avon, on 26 April His birth is traditionally celebrated on 23 April, also known to have been the date of his death. He was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a glover and dealer in other commodities who played a prominent part in local affairs. John had married c. Mary Arden, who came from a family of higher social standing. It is probable that William was educated at the local grammar school. Records indicate that in he married Anne Hathaway of Shottery, eight years his senior. A daughter, Susanna, was baptized on 26 May , and twins, Hamnet and Judith, on 2 February According to Aubrey, ‘he had been in his younger yeares as Schoolmaster in the Countrey.’

Nothing is known of his beginnings as a writer, nor when or in what capacity he entered the theatre. The first printed allusion to him is from , in the pamphlet Greenes Groats‐Worth of Witte; its mention of ‘an upstart Crow’ who ‘supposes he is well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you’ and who ‘is in his owne conceit the onely Shakes‐cene in a countrey’ suggests rivalry, and parody of a line from 3 Henry VI shows that Shakespeare was established on the London literary scene. He was a leading member of the Lord Chamberlain's

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A LIFE
of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Life of William Shakespeare, by Sidney Lee

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p. vPREFACE

This work is based on the article on Shakespeare which I contributed last year to the fifty-first volume of the ‘Dictionary of National Biography.’  But the changes and additions which the article has undergone during my revision of it for separate publicat