Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is an English born writer, born in 1564 (although the day unknown, it is thought to be around the 23rd April) in Stratford Upon Avon in the South of England. He was married to Anne Hathaway at age 18 and quickly fathered 3 children. Shakespeare spent 25 years in London as an actor and playwright and in total wrote some 38 plays - many of them being performed at The Globe Theatre in London - before his death in 1616, several of these plays are considered to be among the finest written works in the world and are still taught to children across the UK today.