BIOGRAPHY (PART 1- EARLY LIFE)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Shakespeare was baptised on 26th April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small country town. He was the son of John Shakespeare. who was a successful glover and alderman from Snitterfield, and of Mary Arden - a daughter of the Gentry. The date of his birth is unknown as they didn't produce Birth Certificates during Elizabethan England (During Queen Elizabeth I's Reign) and his baptism is the first official record of his existence. As baptisms are normally performed  around a few days after your birth, an assumption can be made that he was born in April 1564.
Shakespeare's parents had eight children(including himself): Joan(born 1558 but died during infancy), William( himself, from 1564-1616), Gilbert (1566-1612), Joan (1569-1646), Anne (1571-1571), Richard (1574-1613) and Edmund (1580-1607).