Shakespeare's+Early+Years

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 * Birth Information** - William Shakespeare was assumed to be born on April 23rd, 1564, St. George's Day. People assume that he was born on the 23rd due to an 18th century scholars mistake. He was baptized 3 days later, on April 26th. He was born on Henley Street in Stratford, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.


 * Parents and Family** - His father was John Shakespeare, a glove and alderman who was originally from Snitterfield. His mother was Mary Arden, who was the daughter of an important land-owning father. Shakespeare was the third of eight children in his family, and he was also the oldest of his family's surviving children. His other sibling's names were:
 * Joan, died age 11
 * Margaret, died age 5 months
 * Gilbert, died age 46
 * Joan II, died age 67
 * Anne, died age 8
 * Richard, died age 39
 * Edmund, died age 27


 * Birth Place** - Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small town in England. He lived in a house on Henley Street, where he lived for the first few years of his life, before starting an education at King's New School.




 * Education** - Due to his father's high position in the community, Shakespeare was given a free education from the community. Since he had this great opportunity, he took the education from his hometown of Stratford in a school known as King Edward IV Grammar School, or King's New School. He started going to school at the age of 7, in the year of 1571, and he left in 1578 at the age 14. He had finished his formal education and was a fluent speaker and writer in Latin grammar by the time he had finished school.


 * Cover-up Until Marriage in 1582** - There were 4 years between Shakespeare's departure from school in 1578 and his marriage to 26 year old, Anne Hathaway in 1582. During this time period, nothing very important or crucial happened Shakespeare's life. He wrote literature and practiced the Latin grammar skills he had learned in school, starting to earn some money for his writings. Finally, on November 27, 1582, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18.





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