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A. Biographical Essay

William was born in 1564. We know this from the earliest record we have of his life; his baptism which happened on Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564. We don’t actually know his birthday but from this record we assume he was born in 1564. Similarly by knowing the famous Bard's baptism date, we can guess that he was born three days earlier on St. George’s day, though we have no conclusive proof of this.

Brothers and Sisters.

William was the third child of John and Mary Shakespeare. The first two were daughters and William was himself followed by Gilbert who died in 1612 and Richard who died in 1613. Edmund (1580-1607), sixth in the line was baptized on May the third, 1580 and William's oldest living sister was Joan who outlived her famous playwright brother. Of William’s seven siblings, only Judith and four of his brothers survived to adulthood.

William's Father.

From baptism records, we know William's father was a John Shakespeare, said to be a town official of Stratford and a local businessman who dabbled in tanning, leatherwork and whittawering which is working with white leather to make items like purses and gloves. John also dealt in grain and sometimes was described as a glover by trade.

John was also a prominent man in Stratford. By 1560, he was one of fourteen burgesses which formed the town council. Interestingly, William himself is often described as a keen businessman so we can assume he got his business acumen from his father. In the Bard's case, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree at all...

William's mother: Mary Arden.

William's mother was Mary Arden who married John Shakespeare in 1557. The youngest daughter in her family, she inherited much of her father’s landowning and farming estate when he died.

Early Days on Henley Street...

Since we know Stratford's famous Bard lived with his father, John Shakespeare, we can presume that he grew up in Henley Street, some one hundred miles northwest of London.

The Bard's Education.

Very little is known about literature’s most famous playwright. We know that the King’s New Grammar School taught boys basic reading and writing. We assume William attended this school since it existed to educate the sons of Stratford but we have no definite proof. Likewise a lack of evidence suggests that William, whose works are studied universally at Universities, never attended one himself!

William marries an older woman. (1582)

A bond certificate dated November the 28th, 1582, reveals that an eighteen year old William married the twenty-six and pregnant Anne Hathaway. Barely seven months later, they had his first daughter, Susanna. Anne never left Stratford, living there her entire life.

The Bard's children. (1583 & 1592)

Baptism records show that William’s first child, Susanna was baptized in Stratford sometime in May, 1583. Baptism records again reveal that twins Hamnet and Judith were born in February 1592. Hamnet, William's only son died in 1596, just eleven years old. Hamnet and Judith were named after William’s close friends, Judith and Hamnet Sadler. William's family was unusually small in a time when families had many children to ensure parents were cared for in later years despite the very high mortality rates of children and also their life expectancy in the 1500s.

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A Shakespeare Timeline Summary Chart

Year	Life	Works^1	Events & Publications^2
1564	Shakespeare Born		Christopher Marlowe born John Hawkins second voyage to New World Galileo Galilei born John Calvin dies The Peace of Troyes
1565-1581	1567(?) Richard Burbage, the greatest tragedian of the age, who would eventually portray Hamlet, Lear, Othello and all Shakespeare's great parts born 1576 James Burbage (father of Richard) obtains a 21 year lease and permission to build The Theatre in Shoreditch 1577 The Curtain, a rival theater near The Theatre, opens in Finbury		1565 Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1-4) 1566 Gascoigne's The Supposes 1567 Thomas Nashe born 1571 Tirso de Molina born 1572 Thomas Dekker born 1572 John Donne & Ben Jonson born 1577 Holinshed publishes The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, Shakespeare's primary source for the history plays 1579 John Fletcher born 1580 Thomas Middleton born 1580 Montaigne's Essais published
1582	Shakespeare Married		Hakluyt's Dievers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America
1583	Birth of daughter Susanna The Queen's Company is formed in London
1585	Birth of twins, Judith and Hamnet		1586 Mary Queen of Scots tried for treason
1587(?)-1592	Departure from Stratford Establishment in London as an actor/playwright	The Comedy of Errors Titus Andronicus The Taming of the Shrew Henry VI, 1,2,3 Richard III	1587 Mary Queen of Scots executed 1587 Marlowe's Tamburlaine 1588 Defeat of the Armada 1588 Greene's Pandosto 1588 Marlowe's Dr. Faustus 1590 Spenser's Faerie Queen (1-3) 1590 Marlowe's The Jew of Malta 1591 Sidney'sAstrophil and Stella 1592 Robert Greene dies 1592 Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
1593	Preferment sought through aristocratic connections - dedicates Venus and Lucrece to Henry Wriothsley, Earl of Southampton - possibly the youth of the Sonnets	1593 Venus and Adonis Begins writing the Sonnets, probably completed by c.1597 or earlier Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's Labour's Lost	1593-94 Theaters closed by plague 1593 Marlowe dies
1594	Founding member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men	1594 The Rape of Lucrece
1594-1596	The Lyrical masterpieces Prosperity and recognition as the leading London playwright. 1596 John Shakespeare reapplies successfully for a coat of arms 1596 Hamnet Shakespeare dies at age 11	Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet Richard II Merchant of Venice	1594 Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay 1594 Marlowe's Edward II 1595 Thomas Kyd dies 1595 Sidney's An Apologia for Poetrie 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh explores the Orinoco 1596 Spenser's Faerie Queen (4-6) 1596 George Peele dies.
1597-1599	Artistic Maturity Purchases New Place, Stratford with other significant investments 1599 The Globe Theater built on Bankside from the timbers of The Theatre.   Shakespeare is a shareholder and receives about 10% of the profits	Henry IV,1,2 The Merry Wives of Windsor As You Like It Much Ado About Nothing Henry V Julius Caesar	1597 Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral 1598 Phillip II of Spain dies 1598 Francis Meres Palladis Tamia 1598 John Florio's A World of Words (English-Italian dictionary) 1598 Ben Jonson 's Every Man in his Humour 1599 Essex sent to Ireland and fails, is arrested on return 1599 Edmund Spenser dies
1600-1608	The Period of the Great Tragedies & Problem Plays 1600 The Fortune Theater opens 1601 Shakespeare's father dies 1603 The Lord Chamberlain's Men become The King's Men who perform at court more than any other company 1607 Susanna Shakespeare married Dr. John Hall 1608 The King's Men begin playing at the Blackfriars 1608 Shakespeare's mother dies	Twelfth Night Hamlet Troilus & Cressida Alls Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure Othello King Lear Macbeth Antony and Clepatra Coriolanus Timon of Athens	1600 Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder 1600 Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday 1601 Essex rebels against Elizabeth, fails and is executed 1601 Thomas Nashe dies 1603 Elizabeth dies, James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh arrested, tried and imprisoned 1603 The plagueonce again ravages London 1604 Marston's The Malcontent 1605 The Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes and accomplices arrested 1605 Bacon's The Advancement of Learning 1606 Ben Jonson's Volpone 1607 Tourneur (?) The Revenger's Tragedy 1607 The founding of Jamestown
1609-1611	Period of the Romances 1609 Publication of the Sonnets	Pericles Prince of Tyre Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest	1609 Beaumont & Fletcher The Knight of the Burning Pestle 1610 Prince Henry created Prince of Wales Ben Jonson The Alchemist
1612-1616	Shakespeare probably retires from London life to Stratford Works on collaborations with John Fletcher 1616 Judith Shakespeare married Thomas Quiney March 1616 Shakespeare apparently ill revises his will April 23, 1616 Shakespeare dies and is burried at Holy trinity Church, Stratford	Henry VIII The Two Noble Kinsmen Cardenio	1612 Henry Prince of Wales dies 1612 Webster's The White Devil 1613 Francis Bacon becomes attorney general 1614 Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre 1614 Webster's Duchess of Malfi 1614 Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World 1616 Francis Beaumont dies 1616 Ben Jonson's Workes published in folio 1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

The story of Romeo and Juliet is about two lovers that are complete opposites of each other, one is in the Montague family and the other is in the Capulet family. These two lovers that won’t give each other up for anything that stands in their way ‘til death do them apart. On their way to spend their lives together they go through difficult tasks like Juliet’s father is forcing her to marry someone she doesn’t want to marry.