William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in the county of Warwiekshire, England, in the city of Strathford-Upon-Avon. This city is where young William grew up. The exact date of his birth is not known because not very many records were kept during this time.

William went to grammar school, this school was called “The King’s New School of Strathford-Upon-Avon.” William attended School six days a week for nine hours each day. As a child William would also have fun, he would play many games with his friends, many of which children still play today. Such as: blindman’s bluff, hide-and-seek, and tag.

He had two sisters Anne and Joan. William also had three brothers Gilbert, Fichard, and Edmund. By the age of thirteen William had to quit going to school because his father needed him to work at their family business.

By the age of eighteen, William was married to Anne Hathaway. Anne was twenty-six years old; there was an eight-year difference between the two. In order to get married, he had to get permission

William influenced many writers, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing who was one of the most intelligent representatives of the German enlightenment. For Lessing William was a “classic author”(Lessing).

Venis and Adonis, was Shakespeare’s first published work. It first appeared in 1593 and established his reputation as a poet. When William’s fater, John Shakespeare died , he left no will. But William already had two houses in Strathford-Upon-Avon. Later William had bought one-hundred and seven acres of land and acquired a cottage. He had also bought a house in Blackfriars, London , but never lived in it.

When William wrote plays, many of his plots were not original. He used Raphael Holinshed’s work. Some of the play’s he wrote are a Midsummers’s Night’s Dream and Love’s Labor’s Lost. By August 1596 William had become great and well known writer. By that time William Shakespeare was thirty-two years old.

William and Anne also got her parents blessing. Williams family and Anne’s family had known each other for many years prior to the engagement. Anne was pregnant three months before the wedding. They both moved into Will’s house on Henley Street. Six month’s later they gave birth to their first child, and named her Susanna.

Two years after W

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