Shakespeare was born 23rd of April 1564, the same day as the day of his death, 52 years later - at Stratford on Avon, a small town in Warwickshire, in the heart of England.
His father, John Shakespeare, was a glover, a wooddealer and perhaps a butcher.
About 1565 John Shakespeare was elected to various public offices.
His mother, Mary Arden, was born into a farmers’ family residing in Warwickshire as well. Her people were better off than her husband’s.

William Shakespeare led the life of an ordinary country boy.
He attended the free Latin grammar school of his native town until the age of 14. There, as he was customary at that time, he was tough the classical languages and became familiar with the great Latin writers. Shakespeare’s first poems “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece” evince his classical learning.
At the age of 18 (in 1582) William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, 8 years his senior. His wife was the daughter of a farmer in a village near by. They had 3 children: Susanna, the eldest and the twins Hamnet and Judith.