However, his baptism is recorded as taking place on April 26. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 1564. His parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden ...

He was born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth ... A timeline showing an imagined day in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon circa 1604. Made in association with the ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage ... She was eight years older than him and their first child, Susanna, was born six months after their wedding.

Two of English literature’s greatest names were April babies: William Shakespeare, who was born and who died on April 23, the date chosen by Unesco as World Book Day; and Charlotte Bronte ...

One of the few areas to benefit from his stewardship, the… John Florio — lexicographer, raconteur, and supposed model for Shakespeare’s schoolmaster Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost — was born in ...

A theatre in Norfolk believes it has discovered the only surviving stage on which William ... argument that Shakespeare performed there. Shakespeare's comedian Robert Armin was born just one ...