About+the+Author

= *About the Author*  =



The author of this play is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in a village of Stafford-upon in late April of 1564. (His birthday is celebrated on April 23) He has 7 other siblings that was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He attended grammer school which only wealthy boy had attended. He was in class 6 days a week 10 hours a day. In the year 1582, at the age 18 years old he married a lady name Anne Hathaway who was 8 years older then him which had meant she was 26 years old when he was only 18. He had 3 children with this women Anne. One in 1583, only a year after they were married the child's name was Susanna, then in 1585, two years after having his first children he had twins, named Judith and Hamnet. His entire body of works includes 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epics. He had only wrote four different types of plays comedies, Tragedies, Histories, and Romances. But out of these 38 plays only 18 of these were published during his lifetime.