Very little is known aboute William Shakespeare.The date of his birth is usually considered to be April 23,1564.However,the birth records of the that time are not reliable.At the age of eighteen,he is said to have married Anne Hathaway.She was twenty-six.Shakespeare's career as actor and playwright probably began seven years later.It lasted a little more than a decade.Church records suggest that Shakespeare died in 1616,in Stratford,England,where he had purchased a hourse nineteen year before.