Category:Shakespeare's life

According to a painting on an oak panel from 1623 engraving by Martin Droeshout Shakespeare is a smiling, youthful man with auburn hair and hazel eyes.



But apart from his looks, there is much more controversy and disagreement about Shakespeare as a person. Who was William Shakespeare people ask, but the truth is nobody really knows. However, what we do know is that there was a person by this name who - in the course of his 52 years long life - wrote 154 sonnets.  Some people claim he was a fraud, receiving credit from other peoples' work -  because how can a son of a glove merchant, who didn’t even go to university write such excellent pieces of literature? The only explanation is that he was an illiterate stand-in. Other claim that he was a greedy man and an alcoholic, who had affairs with black women and in his will gave his “second-best-bed” to his wife. We also frown upon the fact that she(Anne Hathaway) was actually 3 months pregnant when they married, and that she was in fact 8 years older than him.

There is an uncertainty about Shakespeare and his past, for example his actual birthday. Most scholars believe it’s on or near april the 21th . They also believe he may have been educated at the kings school in his hometown Stratford in England.



The things we know about Shakespeare for sure, is he didn’t go to the university - that was uncommon for poor people and in general people who live

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">They have found a marriage record for when Shakespeare was 18, he married a 26-year old woman called Anne Hathaway. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">They have also found a baptism record, for a daughter and a set of twins, where one of the twins, Hamlet, died.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">There is an empty gap in Shakespeare’s life between 1585 and 1592, where we don’t know what he was doing

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">We first get to hear about Shakespeare again, when he moved to London, where he became a businessman, property owner and a theatrical shareholder. Later he moved back to Stratford, England, to spent his last years. He died on april 23, 1616, at the age of 52. He was buried in Holy Trinity Church, in his hometown.