Interesting, Important, Unusual and Weird Facts about William Shakespeare
Brief and concise info and fast facts which will answer some of your questions and provide fun and fast facts about William Shakespeare!

• No one knows the actual birthday of Shakespeare! April 23rd has been generally used - the same day as St. George's Day, the Patron Saint of England

• We do not really know what Shakespeare looked like! No portraits were painted of Shakespeare whilst he was still alive!
• The majority of the plays of William Shakespeare were only published seven years after his death in a collection of works called the First Folio!
• Many eminent Authors, Actors and Politicians do not believe that William Shakespeare wrote his plays including Mark Twain leading to the great Authorship debate
• William Shakespeare's three children, Judith, Susanna and Hamnet were all illiterate!
• Many of William Shakespeare life facts are unknown - these years are referred to as the 'Lost Years'
• William Shakespeare and his company built TWO Globe Theatres!

Scandals and Weird Facts about the life of William Shakespeare!

• Many of William Shakespeare life facts are unknown - these years are referred to as the 'Lost Years'

• William Shakespeare is rumoured to be the father of an illegitimate son called William Davenant!
• Treason! William Shakespeare and the Globe Actors were implicated in the Essex Rebellion of 1601!
• Treason! William Arden, a relative of Shakespeare's mother Mary Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth 1, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed!
• Shakespeare's Father, John was a money lender! William was also involved in Money lending!
• The wife of William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway was 8 years older than William Shakespeare and three months pregnant when they married!
• The husband of William Shakespeare's daughter Judith was Thomas Quiney who had made another girl pregnant and was prosecuted for 'carnal copulation'
• In the Last Will and testament of William Shakespeare he left his wife his "second best bed"

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