Biography of William Shakespeare

Biography of William Shakespeare    

    

            -FARLY  LIFE

. No birth records exist but an old church record indicates that a William Shakespeare was baptized  at Holy Trinity church in Stratford- upon-Avon on April 26, 1564.

. From this, it is believed he was Born on or near April 23,  1564,  and this is the date scholars acknowledge as Shakespeare's birthday. 

. Shakespeare was the third child of John. Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary arden, a local landed heiress. Shakespeare has. two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three. younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund.

. Before Shakespeare's birth, his father became a successful merchant and held official positions as alderman and Bailiff, and office resembling a mayor.

. Scant records exist of Shakespeare's childhood and virtually none regarding his education. Scholars have surmised that he most likely attended the king's New school, in Stratford, which taught reading, writing and the classics.

. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway On November 28,  1582, in Worcester, in Canterbury Province. 

          -LOST  YEARS

. There are Seven years of Shakespeare's life where no records exist after the birth of his twins in 1585. in Scholars Call this period the "lost years, ".

.  It's generally believed he arrived in London in the mid-to late 1580s and may have found work as a horse attendant at some of London's finer theaters.

.  By the early 1590s, Documents show Shakespeare was a managing partner in the Lord Chamberlain's man, an acting company in London with which he was connected for most of his career.