Interesting facts It isn't known what he looked like. No portraits of Shakespeare were ever painted while he was still alive. Therefore, there is some uncertainty as to his appearance. William Shakespeare was a playwright. He wrote 154 sonnets and 38 plays. No one knows his actual birthday. He was baptized April 26, 1564. William Shakespeare died on (or about) his birthday, aged 52. Shakespeare's father was a glover. Shakespeare did not go to college. His formal education in his birthplace of Stratford-on-Avon would have ended when he was around 14 years old. Shakespeare's wife was eight years older than he was, and she still survived him. His Marriage was scandalous for the time. Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, was three months pregnant when they got married. He was 18 and she was 26. All of his grandchildren died childless. Shakespeare has no living descendants.
-Shakespeare never published any of his plays because he did not own the right to publish them. As with all other playwrights of the time, the acting company owned the right to publish plays, not the author. He and his partners built Two Globe Theatres. The first Globe Theatre was burned down to the ground on June 29, 1613. Some People believe he didn't write all of his plays. Nearly 50 candidates have been proposed, and thousands of books written, on the question of the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays. However, there is more evidence that he wrote his own work than there is that he didn't. Shakespeare was also an Actor. All his plays cast men only even for women's parts. 400 years after his death there were 15 million pages of him on google, 135 million for god, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and 14.7 for George W. Bush. Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I.
comedies Henry IV, All’s well that ends well, Twelfth night, A Midsummer Night’s dream, Winter’s tale, Much ado about nothing, As you like it tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet histories Pericle, King John, Richard III, Henry VIII poetry A lover’s complain, Venus and Adonis, the Sonnets