April 23,1564.
His father, John, was a dealer in corn,meat,wool
and leather. William was educated at a free Grammar School.
Shakespeare left this school when he was 13 and never went to study again.
When Shakespeare was 18, he married the daughter of a farmer.
Soon his three children were born and he left for London.
Here he became an actor and only in 1593 he began to write for the stage.
He wrote ’’Romeo and Juliet’’, ’’Twelfth Night’’, ‘’Hamlet’’ and other great plays, poems and sonnets.
In 1611 he returned to his native town where he soon died.