What is Shakespeare's name?

Answer 1

William Shakespeare. Spelling variations abound, but he did not have any other name.
"William Shakespeare" William shakespere was quite literly his full name he was never given a middle name.

Answer 2

William Shakespeare. He had no other given name.

Interestingly, in the few existing signatures of his that remain from court documents etc, Shakespeare himself spelled his name a whole bunch of different ways from Shakspere to Shakespe, but never once "Shakespeare". Most of the spellings of his name during his lifetime, either by Shakespeare or others, don't include the "e" after the "k" which suggests that his name could very likely be pronounced like "shack-spear" instead of how it is usually pronounced now.
"William Shakespeare"

Answer 3

The concept of a "real name" would mean nothing to Shakespeare or to any of his contemporaries. They did not care if you used a variant spelling of his name or the Latin form Guilliermus instead of the more common William.

What Shakespeare would say is "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." In other words, names aren't real. Nobody has a real name.

Convention has settled on the form William Shakespeare. That doesn't make it more real than any other form though.

Answer 4

William Shakespeare, is his full name. William Shakespeare was one of eight children. His name has rougly 72 spellings depending on your location so which you intend to know, is beyond me.

Answer 5

William Shakespeare. Don't be fooled by the fact that his baptismal register was written in Latin; they just translated his name into Latin for that purpose. His real name was in English.

Answer 6

His name is William Shakespeare

Answer 7

John Shakespeare.

Answer 8

William Shakespeare is his full name.