William Shakespeare was born sometime late in April in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England to parents John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church so it is assumed to be April 23. William was the third child of eight. John Shakespeare was a prominent and prosperous alderman. He was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. The Shakespeare’s were comfortable, but not aristocrats by any means.
Shakespeare began his education at the age of seven and assumed to have enrolled in the Stratford grammar school. The students there studied Latin rhetoric, logic, and liter
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