Life of William Shakespeare Life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, in the Holy Trinity Church. At age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children. He died in his home town of Stratford on 23 April 1616 at the age of 52. Though more is known about Shakespeare's life than those of most other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, few personal biographical facts survive, which is unsurprising in the light of
William Shakespeare (tenor) of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He died in London in 1931. In addition to singing and composition, William Shakespeare wrote and published several books. These include "The Art of Singing", a three-part series published from 1898 to 1899, "Singing for Schools and Colleges", published in 1907, "Plain Words on Singing" in 1924, and "The Speaker's Art" in 1931. William Shakespeare's style of vocal pedagogy mirrored closely that of his Italian mentor Lamperti, as evidenced from his direct reference to "la lotte vocal", a concept taken directly from the nineteenth-century Italianate school of vocal development. William Shakespeare (tenor)