Facts about Shakespeare
- Shakespeare was born 26 April 1564, Stratford (only later changed to Stratford Upon Avon).
- Shakespeare is widely considered the world’s greatest dramatist.
- He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
- Shakespeare is most likely to have received a classical Latin education at King’s New School in Stratford.
- He married Anne Hathaway when he was only 18.
- Anne (26) was 3 months pregnant when they married.
- Their first child, Susanna was born six months after their marriage.
- They later had two twins, Hamnet and Judith.
- Shakespeare had seven brothers and sisters.
- Shakespeare worked as an actor, writer and co-owner of a drama company called the ‘Lord Chamberlain’s Men’- Later known as the King’s Men.
