Переведите грамотно! william shakespeare's 450th birthday though no birth records exist, church records indicate that a william shakespeare was baptized at holy trinity church in stratford-upon-avon on april 26, 1564. from this, it is believed he was born on or near april 23, 1564, and this is the date scholars acknowledge as william shakespeare's birthday. located 103 miles west of london, during shakespeare's time stratford-upon-avon was a market town bisected with a country road and the river avon. william was the third child of john shakespeare, a leather merchant, and mary arden, a local landed heiress. william had two older ff> iji ^¿^.jiaa, f« sisters, joan and judith, and three younger brothers, gilbert, richard and edmund. ff before william's birth, his father became a successful merchant and held official positions as alderman and bailiff, an office resembling a mayor. however, records indicate john's fortunes declined sometime in the late 1570s. scant records exist of william's childhood, and virtually none regarding his education. scholars have surmised that he most likely attended the king's new school, in stratford, which taught reading, writing and the classics. being a public official's child, william would have undoubtedly qualified for free tuition. but this uncertainty regarding his education has led some to raise questions about the authorship of his work and even about whether or not william shakespeare ever existed. william shakespeare married anne hathaway on november 28, 1582, in worcester, in canterbury province. hathaway was from shottery, a small village a mile west of stratford. william was 18 and anne was 26, and, as it turns out, pregnant. their first child, a daughter they named susanna, was born on may 26, 1583. two years later, on february 2, 1585, twins hamnet and judith were born. hamnet later died of unknown causes at age 11. after the birth of the twins, there are seven years of william shakespeare's life where no records exist. scholars call this period the "lost years," and there is wide speculation on what he was doing during this period. one theory is that he might have gone into hiding for poaching game from the local landlord, sir thomas lucy. another possibility is that he might have been working as an assistant schoolmaster in lancashire. it is generally believed he arrived in london in the mid- to late 1580s and may have found work as a horse attendant at some of london's finer theatres, a scenario updated centuries later by the countless aspiring actors and playwrights in hollywood and broadway.