William Shakespeare Biography
Shakespeare’s Birth and Family
Shakespeare was the third of the eight children born to John and Mary Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23rd
John Shakespeare ran his own business as a glove maker and a wool dealer. He held local public positions and was a bailiff (like a mayor) in the town council. After it is alleged that he was in financial difficulties. In John married Mary Arden who had no formal education at all. John and Mary had lost two daughters prior to William&#;s birth, leaving him as their oldest surviving child. William’s younger siblings were Gilbert (born in ), Joan (), Anne (), Richard () and Edmund (). Anne died at the age of eight, but William&#;s four other younger siblings lived into adulthoods.
Shakespeare’s family lived in a townhouse on Henley Street in the centre of Stratford-Upon-Avon. John used one of his downstairs rooms as a workshop for his glove business, displaying his gloves on his house windowsill for passers-by to peruse and buy. Read more about Shakespeare&#;s birthplace.
Shakespeare&#;s family home on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s Childhood and Education
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William Shakespeare is arguably the most famous writer in the English language, known for both his plays and sonnets. Though much about his life remains open to debate due to incomplete evidence, the following biography consolidates the most widely accepted facts about Shakespeare's life and career.
In the mid-sixteenth century, William Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, moved to the idyllic town of Stratford-upon-Avon. There, he became a successful landowner, moneylender, glove maker, and dealer of wool and agricultural goods. In , he married Mary Arden.
During John Shakespeare's time, the British middle class was expanding in both size and wealth, allowing its members more freedoms and luxuries, as well as a stronger collective voice in local government. John took advantage of the changing times and became a member of the Stratford Council in , which marked the beginning of his illustrious political career. By , he was elected as one of the town's fourteen burgesses, and subsequently served as Constable, then Chamberlain, and later, Alderman. In all of these positions, the elder Shakespeare administe
Play Productions:
- Henry VI, part 1, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- Henry VI, part 2, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- Henry VI, part 3, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- Richard III, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- The Comedy of Errors, London, unknown theater (probably by Lord Strange's Men), circa ; London, Gray's Inn, 28 December
- Titus Andronicus, London, Rose or Newington Butts theater, 24 January
- The Taming of the Shrew, London, Newington Butts theater, 11 June
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona, London, Newington Butts theater or the Theatre,
- Love's Labor's Lost, perhaps at the country house of a great lord, such as the Earl of Southampton, circa ; London, at Court, Christmas
- Sir Thomas More, probably by Anthony Munday, revised by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Heywood, evidently never produced, circa
- King John, London, the Theatre, circa
- Richard II, London, the Theatre, circa
- Romeo and Juliet, London, the Theatre, circa
- A Midsummer Night'
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Shakespeare's Last Will and Testament
For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, allegedly on April 23, Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26, Young William was born of John Shakespeare, a glover and leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a landed local heiress. William, according to the church register, was the third of eight children in the Shakespeare household&#;three of whom died in childhood. John Shakespeare had a remarkable run of success as a merchant, alderman, and high bailiff of Stratford, during William's early childhood. His fortunes declined, however, in the late s.
There is great conjecture about Shakespeare's childhood years, especially regarding his education. Scholars surm
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