Brooksley born biography of william shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an actor , playwright , poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway , with whom he had three children. He died in his home town of Stratford on 23 April , aged Though more is known about Shakespeare's life than those of most other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, few personal biographical facts survive, which is unsurprising in the light of his social status as a commoner, the low esteem in which his profession was held, and the general lack of interest of the time in the personal lives of writers.

Nevertheless, hundreds of biographies have been written and more continue to be, most of which rely on inferences and the historical context of the 70 or so hard facts recorded about Shakespeare the man, a technique that sometimes leads to embellishment or unwarranted interpretation of the documented record. Shakespeare [ b ] was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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His exact date of birth is not known—the baptismal record was dated 26 April —but has been traditionally taken to be 23 April , which is also the Feast Day of Saint George , the patron saint of England. He was the first son and the first surviving child in the family; two earlier children, Joan and Margaret, had died early.

His parents were John Shakespeare , a successful glover originally from Snitterfield in Warwickshire, and Mary Arden , the youngest daughter of John's father's landlord, a member of the local gentry. The couple married around and lived on Henley Street when Shakespeare was born, purportedly in a house now known as Shakespeare's Birthplace.

They had eight children: Joan baptised 15 September , died in infancy , Margaret baptised 2 December — buried 30 April , William, Gilbert baptised 13 October — buried 2 February , Joan baptised 15 April — buried 4 November , Anne baptised 28 September — buried 4 April , Richard baptised 11 March — buried 4 February and Edmund baptised 3 May — buried London, 31 December Shakespeare's family was above average materially during his childhood.