SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE

             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.
             William Shakespeare's literary works made us wonder about his childhood education. It's a fact that we have no record of Shakespeare's early childhood activities. Although there are no surviving enrolment registers, there's a big chance that he might have attended the King's New School at Stratford, since William was the son of a public official. The standards at the Stratford grammar school seem to have been higher than average; existing records indicate that all the masters of the school during the time Shakespeare would have been attending held university degrees.
             At age of four or five, Shakespeare probably started attending a proper grammar school, where he learned how to read and write. Attending from six or seven o'clock early in the morning until five or six o'clock late at night, six days a week! History is an evidence proving his diligence and hard working nature
             When he was eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. She was nearly eight years older than her husband. Their first child, Susanna, was born in1583. Susanna was followed by twins, Hamnet and Judith, in1585. Shakespear left Stratford for a career in London.
             What Shakespeare did between 1583 and 1592 is not known. Various stories are told. He may have taught school, worked in a lawyer's office, served on a rich man's estate, or traveled with a company of actors. One famous story says that about 1584 he and some friends were caught poaching on the estate of S
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