There are not any birth records on Shakespeare however church records suggest that he was baptized at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford on April 26, 1564. With this information it is believed that he was born on April 23, 1564, this is the date that is acknowledge as Shakespeare’s birthday. Shakespeare was the third child of five born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. Jon was a local leather merchant and Mary Arde was a local landed heiress. Jon later held several official positions such as alderman and …show more content…
Due to the lack of birth records there is little know of Shakespeare early years. Shakespeare wrote a total of 37 plays over his lifetime, these were considered to be histories, tragedies, tragicomedies and comedies. Even when scholars questioned how someone with such an modest education could write with the intellectual perceptiveness and poetic power that Shakespeare’s writings displayed, he is still consider the playwright. At Shakespeare’s death he was considered the greatest dramatist of all