Shakespeares Biography

College faculty departament paper work shakespeare’s biography. Lord Chamberlain’s Men. The Great Globe. The Classical plays. The History plays. The Narrative Poems and Sonnets. Experiments in comedy. Shakespeare's Life in Stratford. The Final Year.

Mary had in all eight children with John Shakespeare.   William was the third child and the first son. 

Lysander: The course of true love never did run smooth;But either it was different in blood...Or else misgraffed in respect of years--Hermia:  O spite! Too old to be engaged to young.

Duke:  Then let thy love be younger than thyself,Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;For women are as roses, whose fair flowerBeing once displayed doth fall that very hour.

The Works. Shakespeare's early works can be divided into four groups:

He does not mention his wife Anne except to leave her his "second best bed."