William Shakespeare History, William Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival Celebrations

William Shakespeare was baptized inleft his wife his "second-best" bed.
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, on April 26, 1564Shakespeare's name may have meant "Shaker
and shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 it isof Spears," indicating warrior ancestry Boys and
believe that this day was his birthday because theremen played all the parts in Shakespeare's plays in
are no records about his birth from stateElizabethan times.Dictionaries as we know them
government on which day he was born. Williamtoday were not available in Shakespeare's time.
Shakespeare father John Shakespeare, was a- Sir William Davanant (1606-1668), godson of
whittawer he have approach to live in the city as aShakespeare and poet laureate of England, claimed to
glove maker. Shakespeare mother Mary Arden, wasbe Shakespeare's illegitimate son.
from a quite rich family and john- The ceiling of Shakespeare's stages was called
shakespeare’s had eight children and William"The Heavens."
was their first son.Shakespeare was said to have enjoyed playing the
Shakespeare did not have an wide-ranging education,part of the ghost in Hamlet.
so shakespeare attended stratford grammar school,Shakespeare also performed as Adam in As You Like
a school that specially served famous citizens. NothingIt. Actors performing in Shakespeare's time usually
is know how long Shakespeare attended, but it isreceived only copies of their parts, not entire plays.
assumed that this is the only education he recieved.Shakespeare was 17 or 18 when he married. His wife,
- William Shakespeare was born on April 23 and diedAnne Hathaway, was 26.
on April 23, evidence indicates.In his will, Shakespeare