William Shakespeare Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Children, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
William Shakespeare
NICK NAMES
The Bard
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Sunday
BIRTHPLACE
Warwickshire, West Midlands, England
DIED AT AGE
51 Years 11 Months 27 Days
DEATHDATE
April 23, 1616
DEATHPLACE
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
TAURUS
ALSO NOTED FOR
Playwright, Actor
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
William Shakespeare Family Members
Parents
MOTHER
Mary Shakespeare
FATHER
John Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Anne Hathaway (1582-1616)
Child(ren) of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway
Hamnet (January, 1585) (Son)
Susanna (May, 1583) (Daughter)
Judith (January, 1585) (Daughter)
Fame & Address
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
First Folio (1623)
ADDRESS
England
Education, Net Worth & More
SCHOOLING FROM
King's New School, Stratford
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PICTURE
More Information
Some Lesser Known Facts About William Shakespeare
- At the age of 18, he married a 26 years old lady who was 3 months pregnant, she gave birth to his child 6 months after the marriage.
- It has been recorded that more than 80 variations are there in the spelling of Shakespeare's name and in some of the signature which is originally there he write his name like 'Willm Shakspere', 'Wm Shakspe', 'Willm Shaksp', 'William Shakespe' and so on. As we spell him now 'William Shakespeare' in records there is nothing in which he spells his name like this.
- In his hometown, he was known as the famous businessman and property owner whereas in the London he was known as the best famous playwright.
- At that time he became the wealthy person
first, with a large property portfolio and from second by the play, he wrote.
- There was a time between 1592 and 1594 when due to the plague in Europe the theaters were closed and at that time there were no demands for play than at the age of 29, he started writing the play.
- He has written around 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and many poems. There are also so many lost plays on which he has worked on.
- 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' the last play of Shakespeare which was written when he was 49 years old.
- The shortest play which he wrote was of 1,770 lines long and the name of the play was 'The Comedy of Errors'.
- He has written around a tenth of the most quoted lines which was we ever spoke and written in English according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
- The time when he started to do the plays, at that time females were illegal to participate in theaters or play so in his plays the part of a girl was written for boys but later the first lady participated in the play during the Restoration.
- During the Henry VIII performance they shot the cannon and through that, the fire was caught by the roof of the theater and his theater named Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was ended on 29th June 1613.
- Abraham Lincoln (President of America) was a great fan of the Shakespeare play.
- His all plays were never published by him, in fact, they are published in the name of John Hemminges and Henry Condell which was his fellow actors.
- Did William Shakespeare takes alcohol? NA.
- Was William Shakespeare in the habit of Smoking? NA.
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