The Life of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on the 26d of April, 1564 on St.George Day. He was the son of John Shakespeare, who was elected to civil which gave a position in the community, and Mary Arden. his parent owned a prosperous wool and farm products business which eventually went bankrupt. William was the third of eight children. He had four sisters and three brothers. Joan was the first, she died from a plague before William was born. Margret came after but she died as baby at a year or maybe less. Then there was Joan and then the last child Anne. His brothers where Edmund, Richard and Gilbert. Gilbert was a trade man and a haberdasher.
As a child form the age of six to age 13 William attended the Stratford Grammer School. Whilst attending school he fell i love with reading stories written by Latin authors and learning learning to speak and write English. Having been born into a large family he earn money as a child buy working for a butcher in his community. It is not certain how long he worked for the butcher but we know that he got married to twenty-six year old Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. She was pregnant with their first child Susanna at the time.
They had three children. Two years after the birth of Suzanna, Anne gave birth to a set of twins who they called Hamnet and Judith. Sadly Hamnet died at the age of eleven from a plague the hit England in 1596. William spent approximately six years form 1585 to 1592 acquiring skills as an actor and playwright. These careers in addition to being a talented poet made him a very wealthy man. He died at the age of 52 on the 23rd of April 1616. Although he has been dead for hundreds of years his work still lives on in the hearts of many.