"We must be cruel to be kind, thus lets begin the bad and leave the worse behind"

There are records that confirm that Shakespeare was baptized on the 26 of April. However it was common practice of the time to wait three days to baptize a newborn, therefore it is commonly held that he was born and died on the same day. April the 23rd.

William Shakespeare was born to Mary Arden (Daughter of a wealthy land owner, Robert Arden). And John Shakespeare (the son of Richard a man who had worked on the Land of Robert Arden) despite their social division a year after the death of Robert Arden in 1557 John and Mary were Married (marriage for love was not very common at the time). Seven years after the marriage William was born. Williams Father rose the rank of Alderman in the community which allowed William a good education (John and Mary were both illiterate), however at the age of 14 he had to be withdrawn from school to work, as his father began to have financial trouble (its believed it was due to religious persecution, the Shakespeare’s were Catholic).

William Married Ann Hathaway at 18 and they had three children. At the age of 21 he moved to London to pursue an acting career and received some notoriety for his skill. However at the age of 28 he quit acting to devote all his time to becoming a playwright, it’s commonly understood that from the years of 1592 to 1608 William wrote the most brilliant plays in the English language “The Tragedies”

Upon his death in 1616 William had only published a few of his plays after his death in 1623, John Heminges and Henry Condell, fellow actors. published most of his works in the “First Folio” as the typesetting for this work took several years the original price was about three hundred dollars (comparatively), only about a thousand were printed, 228 are known to currently exist, The Folger Library in Washington DC has 79 copies, and in 2001 a copy was sold by the Christies auction house in New York for 6.16 Million.

It is commonly understood that Shakespeare invented over 1700 commonly used words. And his phrases are accepted as the fabric of our Language to this day; someone who is “green” as being young. Or struck by the “green eyed monster of jealousy”, or killing someone in “cold blood”, or not understanding some one as “speaking Greek”, or vanishing into “thin air” or being “tongue tied”, having to go to a “shylock”, being “caught in a pickle”, if you’re ever a “laughing stock”, refer to family as “flesh and blood”, if you’ve been “hoodwinked”, or “deader than a door nail”. This is all Shakespeare and more.
There are critics who doubt the authorship of his plays due to the fact that he had a limited education and came from illiterate parents however his childhood education would have far exceeded our modern standards, it would have included Latin ancient Philosophy mythology and history.

When I was a child one of the few books in the house was a complete works of Shakespeare I first began to pick apart and define the language, then reread the plays to understand the imagery. I loved the characters and the timeless concepts; the frustration of Mercutio, the Cowardice of Macbeth, the Nobility of Henry the 5th, the demons of Richard the 3rd, and the Madness of Hamlet.

There is no evidence that Shakespeare ever traveled further then London from his home in Stratford, but his characters conveyed a richness of the time an emersion of the surrounding. For example, the in the Two Gentlemen of Verona the servant Panthino speaks in a cumbersome provincial accent and of his knowledge of traveling and the sea, Shakespeare did this constantly whether he was speaking in the "proper kings English" or the gravediggers drunken drawl in Hamlet, the details are a seamless reflection of the emotional conflict and eternal struggles.