Fun facts about william shakespeare

William was born in April in a town called Stratford-upon-Avon, in the middle of England. His family were also in the middle — meaning not rich, but not poor either. His dad had a number of jobs including selling leather and wool, tasting beer really and as a glove maker, and the family — all five of them — lived above a glove shop.

Although William was taught Latin at his local school, spelling was not part of lessons and everyone spelled words how they wanted. Imagine that!

20 facts about shakespeare

Married at the tender age of 18 to Anne Hathaway not the actress from The Witches! His brother Edmund soon followed him to the city to do the same. Will had better luck writing plays than acting, however. He learned fast and produced gory tragedies, rom-coms and comedies. Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays in his life, that we know of — this averages out to two per year!

He also wrote a lot of poetry, mostly poems called sonnets. In one year alone, , he published a of them!