This Day in History:
William Shakespeare Is Born April 23, 1564 The most-performed
dramatist of all-time
was most likely born on this
day in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Little is known about Shakespeare's early years,
mainly because of his unremarkable living situation. He would have studied Latin and
the classics in grammar school,
but Shakespeare received no
university education. Instead, he married Anne Hathaway
at the age of 18, who gave birth to
their first child six months later. Shakespeare emerged
as a playwright of note
in London in the 1590s. Over the next twenty years, he would
pen some of the most significant works
of the English language, including
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. Shakespeare died in
the place of his birth,
on the day he is thought
to have been born, in 1616.