William was baptized in Warwickshire, England. It is assumed that he attended the local grammar school, being that his father was bailiff of the town. His father, John Shakespeare was a burgess of the borough, in Warwickshire. He was engaged in various kinds of trade and appears to have suffered some fluctuation in prosperity. His wife, Mary Arden, of Wilmcote,Warwickshire, came from an ancient family and was the burgess of some land. Given the somewhat rigid social distinctions of the 16th century this marriage must have been a step up the social scale for John Shakespeare.

In 1582, at the age of eighteen, William married Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than him and pregnant

Hamlet: "O that too too solid flesh would melt

With all his success and achievement Shakespeare experienced the devastation of his life in the year of 1596. His only son from a set of twins died. Young Hamnet was just eleven years old. There is no record as to how William handled it but it must have been hard. According to the Britannica, there are stories -given currency long after his death, of Shakespeare stealing deer and getting into trouble with a local magnate. In the lieu of external evidence, such explorations about William's life have often been made from internal evidence of his writings. (Pg252) A few years after Hamnet's death Shakespeare produced the world famous play of Hamlet. Through the interpretation of this play it is obvious to draw the connection to Shakespeare himself.

The lines above were spoken from Hamlet at a time in his life when he felt desperate for some sort of solution to his problems. He is stating how he wishes to die but God 's law forbids suicide. Also how he now thinks of life as tedious and foul. Finally he recalls his dead father who was superior to Claudius(his father's brother and his mother's new husband). These are the feelings of a person who has experienced a tremendous lost and can not visualize a purpose for going on with their life. William Shakespeare must be that person. Within just a short period of time of five years, he experienced the death of his only son Hamnet and his father John Shakespeare. Hamlet is truly a work of art that expresses how people cope with man's ultimate destiny- death.

How weary, stale flat and unweeded garden

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

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