... April 23, 1564 on Henley Street of Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare was baptized April 26, 1564 at the Holy Trinity Church. Shakespeare's father was John Shakespeare, who was a glove maker and a leather merchant. John had great success in his career, but that success turned to failure in the 1570's. Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden was a landed heiress. Mary and John had ... 1616. After Shakespeare died, in 1623 his friends, Henry Condell and John Heminges, collected Shakespeare's plays and sonnets and published them in the First Folio. If it wasn't for this book of Shakespeare...

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