Even if William is considered one of the most famous ... When the spread of plague closed London theatres (1592-1594), Shakespeare started to write his famous sonnets. His patron and friend ...

Shakespeare’s parents had been Catholics, and the tension between the new and old religions can be seen in much of his work. William’s father, John Shakespeare, was a member of the borough ...

Shakespeare is probably the most famous writer in the world, but relatively little is known about his life. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and he was probably educated at the local grammar ...

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 ...

With a little something for young adults, a little something for a more mature audience and lots of inside jokes for ...

Grant puts it in his joint biography of husband and wife ... supervised by the Variorum scholar Horace Howard Furness, on “The True Text of Shakespeare”. By all accounts, the marriage was an extremely ...