William Shakespeare on lived from (April 23, 1564 to April 23, 1616) was an English playwright, actor and poet also known as the “Bard of Avon” and often called England’s national poet. William was the third child of John Shakespeare a leather merchant, and Mary Arden was a local landed heiress. William had two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. Before William’s birth his father became a successful merchant and held official positions as alderman and bailiff, an office resembling a mayor. He most likely went to the King’s New School in Stratford that taught reading, writing and the classics. He was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward. he most likely attended the King’s New School, in Stratford, which taught reading, writing and the classics. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathway on November 28, 1582 in Worcester, in Canterbury Province. There are seven years of William Shakespeare’s life where no records of him after the birth of his twins in 1585. People call this time the ‘lost years’ and people doesn’t know what he was doing during this period. In 1592 there is evidence William Shakespeare earned a living as an actor and a playwriter in London and most likely had several plays produced. Early in his career Shakespeare attracted the attention of Henry Wriothesley and he was the Earl of Southampton to whoShakespeare dedicated his first and second published poems “Venus and Adonis” I 195 and “The Rape of Lucrece” in 1954.