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1. He was born in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England.

2. His father was a glover and at one time was the mayor of Stratford.

3. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582. She was eight years older than he was.

4. He had three children: Susannah, Judith and Hamnet.

5. He became a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, an acting company, in 1594.

6. A collection of 154 sonnets by him was published in 1609.

7. He retired from the theatre in 1613 and died in Stratford on April 23, 1616, which was St. George's day and might have been his 52nd birthday.

8. In 1623, two of his associates, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published an omnibus volume of his plays, now called the First Folio, which contains 26 of the 28 plays now generally attributed to him.

9. His plays are still the most-performed and most studied plays in the English Language, with many lines from his plays being so familiar to people that they do not realize that they are quotations.

10. we will always remember William Shakespeare for his poems,stories and lots more

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