william shakespeare

Parents: John and Mary Shakespeare.

Brothers and sisters:

Joan, born 1558, died before 1569.

Margaret, born 1562, died 1563 (aged 5 months).

William, born 1564, died 1616. r

Joan, born 1569, married William Hart, died 1646.

Anne, born 1571, died 1579.

Richard, born 1574, occupation unknown, died 1613.

Edmund, born 1580, "player," died 1607.

Schooling: unknown. Records for the school at Stratford are lost; as the son of an Alderman, William would have gone to the parish school.

Married: Anne Hathaway (26) when he was 18, in 1582.

Children: Susannah, born in 1583; Hamnet and Judith (twins), born in 1585.

First mention as playwright: the attack by Robert Greene in 1592.

First document mentioning him as connected with the theater: an entry in the Declared Accounts of the Treasurer of the Royal Chamber, dated 15 March 1595.

First published play: Henry VI, Part Two, which appeared in 1594.

Total number of plays: 37 (see the Chronology ).

Poems: Sonnets, narrative poems.