The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

Shakespeare is at the heart of English-speaking civilization. The Bard was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is about as far inland as you can get in his “scepter’d isle ...