Shakespeare's Childhood

Parents

Citations

• His father was John Shakespeare.
• He was an alderman and a bailiff (An alderman is an elected member of a municipal council and a bailiff is a person who performs certain actions under legal authority).
• His mother was Mary Arden Shakespeare.

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• "William Shakespeare Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323>.

Birth/Death

• Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
• He was baptized on April 26, 1564.
• He supposedly died on his birthday in 1616 (April 23, 1616).

"Lost Years"

Education

Siblings

• These are the years where Shakespeare "disappeared" and nobody knows what he did in this period of time.
• The only thing we do know is that he married a pregnant orphan named Anne Hathaway on November 28,1582.
• He was 18 and she was 26.

• At the age of 4 he was enrolled at The King's New School in Stratford-grammar school for the son's of servants.
• He had classes 6 days a week starting at dawn.
• He studied the alphabet like we do.
• At age 7 he started studying latin.
• He learned basic reading and writing skills from an alphabet book.
• Some books he would've read would be A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole:In Four Small Treaties, Concerning, A Pretty School, The Usher's Duty, and The Master's Method.
• Shakespeare was removed from the school when he was 13 because of his father's financial and social issues

• He had three sisters named Joan, Anne, and Margaret.
• Joan was born on September in 1558 and died shortly after because of the plague.
• Anne was born in 1571 and died when she was eight.
• Margaret was born on December 2, 1562 and died one year later.
• Shakespeare also had three brothers named Edmund, Gilbert, and Richard.
• Edmund was born on May 3, 1580 and died in 1607.
• Gilbert was baptized on October 13, 1566 and survived the plague to his adulthood and died on February 3, 1612.
• Richard was baptized on March 11, 1574 and died on February 4, 1613.

Shakespeare's Childhood

By:Brenda Rodriguez