Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Shakespeare was baptised on the 26th of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, and his birth is traditionally observed on the 23rd of April, Saint George's Day. He died on the 23rd of April 1616 at the age of 52.
At the age of 18, William Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, with a marriage licence issued on the 27th of November 1582. They had three children: Susanna, baptised on the 26th of May 1583, and twins Hamnet and Judith, baptised on the 2nd of February 1585.
William Shakespeare's extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses. The First Folio of 1623 contained 36 of his plays, 18 of them printed for the first time.
The First Folio is a collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays published in 1623 by his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell. Its preface includes Ben Jonson's poem hailing Shakespeare as "not of an age, but for all time."
William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Many critics believe his tragedies represent the peak of his art, with Hamlet analysed more than any other Shakespearean character.
William Shakespeare was firmly enshrined as England's national poet by 1800 and described as the "Bard of Avon," or simply "the Bard," a reference to his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Nearly all Shakespeare scholars and literary historians accept that William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him. Around 230 years after his death, fringe theories proposed alternative candidates including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.