Shakespeare

Shakespeare was born on 23April 1564,at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, a prosperous small market town of about two thousand inhabitants. He was the third child and the first to survive infancy. He was to be followed by five brothers and sisters. His mother was Mary Arden. She came from respected family. His father was John Shakespeare, a prominent citizen in Stratford. He was a glover and dealt in wool. When he was eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne …

…He shared in the building of the new Globe. A few months before the fire he bought as an investment a house in the fashionable Blackfriars district of London. On April 23, 1616, Shakespeare died at the age of 52. This date is according to the Old Style, or Julian, calendar of his time. The New Style, or Gregorian, calendar date is May 3, 1616 . He was buried in the chancel of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford