Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...

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 ...

A timeline showing an imagined day in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon circa 1604. Made in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Why was Shakespeare so special?

William Shakespeare: Well… Female presenter: No one knows the exact details of Shakespeare’s life because no one really wrote anything about people back then; unless you were a king or something.

William Shakespeare lived two lives ... This was the second scandal of Shakespeare’s life, because the Sonnets were love poems and were not written for his wife. There has always been a mystery ...

Every scholar is aware of the precision with which Shakespeare limns ... author of the plays — William of Stratford, we might call him — and court or political life. This has perplexed many ...