William Shakespeare was born on April the 23rd, 1564 which was St. George's Day in the Stanford-upon-avon in England and died in the year 1616. he was the son of John Shakespeare who died in the year 1608 and Mary Ardon who died in the year 1608. John prospered by dealing with farm products and wool and was then riddled or faced with bad debt. He was also elected into the civil positions within the community between 1557- 1570. Mary Ardon was the daughter of a wealthy family.
William had several siblings. Gilbert who was a Tradesman and a Haberdasher, born in 1566 and died in 1612, Margaret; born in 1562 and died in 1563, Joan; born in 1558 and died from a plague, Edmund; born in the year 1580 and died1607, Richard who was born in the year 1574 and died in 1613, Anne; born in 1571 and died 1579 and Joan who was born in 1569 and died in the year 1646.
During Williams childhood, he worked as a butche. Between the ages of 6-13, he attended the Stratford Grammer School where he enjoyed learning English and Latin and reading stories by latin arthurs. In his adult years he had a career in London as a poet, actor and playwriter, who worked with Hamlet in 1602, accumilating wealth. In the year 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, a 26 year old orphan who was pregnant at the time with their first child. They had three children, twins by the name of Judith born in 1585 and Hamnet who died in 1596. They also had a daughter by the name of Susanna who was born in the year 1583.
Monday, October 26, 2009
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