How old was Shakespeare when he died?

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist and is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”

William Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.

However, his early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres.

William Shakespeare then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

In the last phase of his life, William Shakespeare wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.

William Shakespeare’s exact date of birth was not recorded. However, the date he got baptized; on April 26, 1564  is mostly used to represent his date of birth.

William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, and using the date he got baptized (which may be quite close to his date of birth), he died at the age of 54.

A lot of William Shakespeare’s plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime.

However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare’s, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare’s dramatic works that included all but two of his plays.

Its preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: “not of an age, but for all time”.