Historians don’t know his date of birth, where he was educated or how he spent seven years of his life. There is no record of Shakespeare’s birth, but his christening is recorded. It was usual ...
The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...
None can ever be definitive. The reason is simple: Shakespeare remains mysterious, even when we know a great deal about him. Patient investigation by a succession of scholars over the last two hundred ...