SHAKESPEARE

1.       When was William Shakespeare born? Where?
His birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23, as the parish register of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shows that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564.

2.       Write the names of William Shakespeare’s parents. Who were they?
John Shakespeare & Mary Ardenin.

3.       Write the name of his wife. When did they get married?
Anne Hathaway.
He married at the age of 18.

4.       Write the names of his three children. What happened to them?
Susanna Hamnet and Judith.

5.       What was the name of his hometown?
Stratford- upon- Avon.

6.       Write the names of the buildings in his hometown related to him.
His birthplace, King Edward VI Grammar School, Mary Arden's house, Nash House, Hall's Croft, Anne Hathaway's cottage and Holy Trinity Church.

7.       Where did he study?
Stratford.

8.       Did he go to university?
Shakespeare did not go on to the university.

9.       Why did he leave his family and hometown to go to London?
We don't know for sure.

10.   How many plays had he written when he arrived in London? 
None.

11.   When can we find the first reference to Shakespeare in the literary world of London?
In 1592, when a fellow dramatist, Robert Greene, wrote about Shakespeare in a pamphlet written on his deathbed.
When he was in London, he was an actor and playwritght who belonged to the company called Lord Chamberlain's Men (called the King's Men after the accession of James I in 1603), which had been founded by Lord Chamberlain and whose theatre was called The Globe. They had the bast actor Richard Burbage and the best dramatist, William Shakespeare.

12.   When and where did he die?
He died on April 23, 1616 in Stratford- upon- Avon.

13.   When and where did his wife die?
Anne died in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare.

14.   Where is he buried?
In the chancel of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon. No name was inscribed on his gravestone. Instead these lines, possibly his own, appeared:
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

15.   What did his will state?
Shakespeare's will (made on March 25, 1616) is a long and detailed document. It entailed his quite ample property on the male heirs of his elder daughter, Susanna.
As an afterthought, he bequeathed his "second-best bed" to his wife; but no one can be certain what this notorious legacy means.
The testator's signatures to the will are apparently in a shaky hand. Perhaps Shakespeare was already ill.