William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in England in 1564. While his exact birthdate is
             unknown, it is most often celebrated on April 23, the feast of St. George, and also the date upon which he
             would die. He was the third of seven children born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. Shakespeare's
             father was a tanner and glovemaker. He was a fairly prominent political figure as well, being an alderman of
             Stratford for years, and serving a term as "high bailiff" (what we would call a mayor). He died in 1616,
             leaving little land to William, his eldest son. Not much is known of Mary Shakespeare, except that she had a
             William Shakespeare attended a very good grammar school in Stratford-upon- Avon, though the time period
             during which he attended school is not known. His instructors were all Oxford graduates, and his studies
             were probably primarily in Latin. Little else is known of his boyhood.
             Shakespeare's Marriage and Life in London
             In 1582 at 18 years of age, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, a lady seven or eight years older than he
             from Shottery, a villiage a mile from Stratford. Their first daughter, Susanna, was born in 1583, followed by
             twins in 1585, Hamnet and Judith. By 1592, Shakespeare was an established playwright in London;
             however, the plague kept the theaters closed most of the time, and it was during this time that Shakespeare
             wrote his earliest sonnets and poems.
             Shakespeare did most of his theater work in a district northeast of London, in two theaters owned by James
             Burbage, called the Theatre and the Curtain. In 1598, Burbage moved to Bankside and built the famous
             Globe Theatre, in which Shakespeare owned stock and made quite a bit of money on. Around this time,
             Shakespeare applied for and got a coat of arms, with the motto: Non sanz droict (not without right). This
             gave him the standing of a gentleman, something that was not generally associated with actors, who wer...