Shakespeare

Part I of Essay
William was born on April 23, 1564. He was baptized on April 24, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was the third of eight children born to John and Mary Arden. John was a well-known merchant and Mary was the daughter of a Roman Catholic member of the gentry. ....

Part II of Essay
.... in 1583 and twins- a boy and a girl- in 1585. The boy however, eventually did not live. apparently arrived in London around 1588 and by 1592 had gained success as an actor and a playwright. Shortly after that, he secured the business of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton. The publication of 's two poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) and some of his Sonnets (published 1609), established a reputation for him as a talented and popular Renaissance poet. The Sonnets describe the devotion of a character to a ....