Who Was Shakespeare?

       Shakespeare, to me, was always just a famous writer from the past who wrote popular plays such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. However, after a bit of research I learned facts about Shakespeare that I did not previously know. Shakespeare was born in 1564 to John Shakespeare, a landowner, a merchant, and glovemaker. These occupations weren't held in high esteem thus people feel such a writer like Shakespeare could not be born into this type of family. Regardless of what kind of family he grew up in, Shakespeare went on to become known as the "Greatest writer in the English language." I feel that even when researching Shakespeare there is always a great void. I've learned that he was a renowned writer, and i've learned a bit about his past, but I still don't know who Shakespeare is. I don't think anyone really knows the cold hard facts of who he was as a person and his true background. This causes me to only want to delve deeper into Shakespeare research.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/shakespeare.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare