English poet, playwright and

actor of the Renaissance era. Born on or near April 23

1564, Stratford-upon-Avon,
United Kingdom and was
baptized at Holy Trinity
Church in Stratford-upon-
Avon on April 26, 1564.

Third child of John

Shakespeare, a leather
merchant, and Mary Arden,
a local landed heiress.

At the age of 18, he

married Anne Hathaway,
with whom he had three
children: Susanna and
William twins Hamnet and Judith.

Shakespeare Sometime between 1585

and 1592, he began a
successful career in London
as an actor, writer, and
part-owner of a playing
company called the Lord
Chamberlain's Men, later
known as the King's Men.

His early plays were

His extant works,
including collaborations, consist of Lear, and Macbeth, all
some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two
long narrative poems, and a few
other verses, some of uncertain
authorship.
Years active: 1585–1613.
primarily comedies
and histories. Until about
1608, he wrote
mainly tragedies, among
them Hamlet, Othello, King
considered to be among the
finest works in the English
language.

Scholars have
surmised that he
most likely attended
the King's New
School, in
Stratford, a free
school chartered in
1553, which taught
reading, writing and
the classics.
King's New School, in Stratford.
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