Historians don’t know his date of birth, where he was educated or how he spent seven years of his life. There is no record of Shakespeare’s birth, but his christening is recorded. It was usual ...

surprisingly little is known about William Shakespeare’s life. For the past four centuries, historians have had the difficult ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

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