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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a small town near London, in April 1564. We don't know what day he was born on, but it is most often celebrated around the world on the 23 of April. He was baptised on the 26th of April and was born to John Shakespeare, who was a glove-maker and Baliff, and Mary Shakespeare the daughter of a local farmer. Shakespeare had six siblings.

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Shakespeare began attending the Stratford Grammar School  when he was six or seven and left due to his father's financial difficulties when he was thirteen. In school Shakespeare learnt to read and write in Latin and Greek as well as English. There is no record of Shakespeare attending university.

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On November 27, 1582 Shakespeare marrid Anne Hathaway; he was 18 and she was 25. In May 26, 1583 the couple welcomed their first daughter: Susanna and only two years later Hamnet and Judith.

Hamnet died at the age of eleven and was burried in the Holy Trinity Church on August 11, 1596. Shakespeare appears to have named his most famous character, Hamlet, after his son.

Apart from his marriage and children, there is no record of what Shakespeare was doing at this time, before he went to London. Some people have suggested he was a teacher.

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Shakespeare moved to London in the late 1580s, where he wrote histories, tragedies, comedies and problem plays such as: Hamlet, Twelfth night, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s dream.

During Shakespeare's time women were not allowed on the stage. In an Elizabethan production boys would play the female parts, like Ophelia in Hamlet or Desdemona in Othello, whilst occasionally men would play the older women.

In this era Sumptuary Laws were passed to make sure that people did not wear clothes above their social rank.The labourers, who made up the majority of the population, still lived in little more than one roomed, single-storeyed huts  furnished with maybe just a bed, table and a few stools. The design of these had changed little since medieval times. The relatively few clothes owned by the poor would be practical, as opposed to fashionable. Life expectancy was low and many children did not live beyond the age of five. These people lived in considerable poverty.

Meanwhile rich people’s houses in Elizabethan England were distinguished by having many windows ,an expensive luxury, ornate woodwork and rich tapestries. Rich people had more leisure time and grand landscaped gardens were designed. Rich Elizabethan's would buy expensive clothes made from luxurious materials. Fashion was very important at the Royal Court and courtiers would often spend vast amounts on their clothes. Children of nobility were often taught by tutors at home. Boys from the lesser gentry from 7 to 14 years old often attended grammar schools, before university in Oxford, Cambridge or London.

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The Globe theater began construction on December 28, 1598. It took six month and opened for performances in May 1599. It was built on the south bank of the Thames, just outside the city limits of the day because it was illegal to put on a play inside London. It was owned by the actors but had to be sponsored by a noble patron.

Unfortunately the Globe burned down during a performance of King Henry VIII in 1613 but it was rebuilt on the same spot.

To watch a performance in the Globe you could pay a penny to stand in the pit for another penny, you could have a bench seat in the lower galleries which surround the pit or for a penny more, you could sit more comfortably on a cushion. The most expensive seats would have been in the 'Lord's Rooms'. For six pence you could sit behind the thrust stage or in the musicians' gallery so everyone could see your clothes.

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Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays here is the list.

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus

Histories

1,2, and 3 Henry VI, 1 and 2 Henry IV, King John, Henry V, Henry VIII, Richard II, Richard III

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1606-16 Shakespeare keeps writing, but starts to live at home in Stratford-upon-Avon more and on 1616 Shakespeare dies on 23 April, which coincidentally is St George’s Day which remembers the English patron saint. His wife dies in 1623.Shakespeare’s plays weren’t published during his life; it was only after he died that his friends got together and paid for his plays to be collected. If they hadn’t, most of the plays would not have survived to this day.

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At the reconstructed Globe theatre in London, Professor Stephen Greenblatt explores how Shakespeare’s plays would have been performed in his own time. 

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At the reconstructed Globe theatre in London, Professor Stephen Greenblatt explores how Shakespeare’s plays would have been performed in his own time. 

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Globe Theatre: Performance during Shakespeare's time