When was Shakespeare born?

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 was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 1564.

However, his exact date of his birth is not recorded, but it is most often celebrated around the world on 23 April.

However, Shakespeare’s baptism is recorded in the Parish Register at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon on Wednesday 26 April 1564.

Mostly, his date of baptism (26 April 1564) is used in place of 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”.