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William Shakespear was born on wednsday april twenty-sixth, 1564. He was the third child of John and Marry Shakespear. Only his older sister, three of his four brothers, and himself made it to adulthood. His older sister, Joan outlived him. The parents of the baptist family were succesful. The father, (John,) was a succesful buisiness man. His mom, Mary, inherited her fathers farm estate. William met Anne Hathaway. When he was eighteen she was twenty-six. He married and inpregnated her. His oldest daughter was Susanna. After her they had twins: Hamnet and Judith, who were named after shakespears friends. Hamnet (william's only son,) died when he was only eleven years old. Seven years after his kids were born, Shakespear disappeared from records. His appsence waknown as his,"Lost Times." He reappeared in London in 1592. He moved to London to establish himself as a writer. It was here where he wrote his first two poems. The first was //Venus and Adonis//, the second was //The Rape of Lucrece//. After this work he began to become famous and picked up the nickname, The Bard. He also got to work on his plays, in fact he wrote and had fifteen of his thirty-seven plays performed in 1597 alone. He struck gold in 1605 when he bought real estate leases and because of that he made sixty pounds a year. **Sadly he died on April twenty-third, 1616**, but not before writing thirty- seven plays and onehundered fifty-four sonnets. Some of these important works include:
 * Biography**
 * 1) Henry 4
 * 2) Romeo and Juliet
 * 3) Titus Andronicus
 * 4) Midsummers Night Dream
 * 5) Much Ado About Nothing
 * 6) Henry 5
 * 7) Julius Caesar
 * 8) As you Like It
 * 9) Hamlet
 * 10) Twelfth Night
 * 11) Othello
 * 12) MacBeth
 * 13) King Lear
 * 14) Sonnets
 * 15) Henry 8**.**
 * The last of his Decendents ended when Susanna died in 1670.**