Biography of shakespeare william

William Shakespeare was indisputably among the top English-language poets and playwrights of all time.

Biography of shakespeare william

He was born in the village of Stratford-upon-Avon in April and died there in April His surviving body of work includes 38 plays, sonnets and two narrative poems, the majority of which he penned between and While much of Shakespeare's biography is unknown, murky or subject to dispute, historians have managed to verify factual data through his own writings, the works of his contemporaries and historical documents.

Early Years: to

The Bard of Avon, as William Shakespeare is also known, was the child of a leather merchant and glover, John Shakespeare. His mother was from a family of landed gentry. In the absence of records detailing Shakespeare's early education, historians guess he attended a nearby school where he learned to read and write English as well as Latin.

In , when he was just 18, Shakespeare married