There are baptismal, marriage and burial records for all of the members of Shakespeare's family. Legal records have also been preserved, so we know about lawsuits started by Shakespeare and those brought against his father, and the prosecutions against his son-in-law, Thomas Quiney. We have records of land sales and his purchase of New Place. We have his will. We have some records of his son-in-law John Hall's medical practice. We have Shakespeare's deposition in a lawsuit involving his landlord. We have records of the Charter forming the Lord Chamberlain's men. We have Shakespeare's application for a grant of arms for his father.
Shakespeare is also mentioned here and there in other people's wills and correspondence, and in the testimonials published with the first Folio, and in his other published works. His grave and the monument erected to him by his family still exist, along with his wife's grave.
No.
Same as it is now, a pharmacist, a druggist.
For the first thirty-nine years of it.
queen Elizabeth and king James he was around for the end of the Tudors and beginning of Stuarts era
Earl of Southampton is believed to be a patron of Shakespeare. This has been gathered from several circumstances in Oxford's life.
He was born there, married there, died there, and buried there. He lived half his life there and his family lived there all their lives.
he got AIDs
the war
No.
Same as it is now, a pharmacist, a druggist.
For the first thirty-nine years of it.
He got testicular cancer
His goal was to prove that people interested in literature can be smarter than mathematicians
No. Shakespeare never ever based his plays on his own life. This is probably a good thing as his life was probably pretty boring.
Queen Elizabeth I was queen for all but the last 13 years of Shakespeare's life.
He was living in London, a full-time actor trying to make a break into the playwriting business.
Probably his birth. He wouldn't have been able to do much if he hadn't been born.