William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright of all time, although many facts about his life still remain a mystery. In his lifetime Shakespeare wrote 36 plays and 154 sonnets. The following paragraphs will include the known key moments in William Shakespeare's life, from birth to death. Shakespeare is believed to have been born on 23 April 1564 and baptized three days later, on 26 April 1564, at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. He started school at the age of five and there William Shakespeare learned to read and write. At the age of eight he was enrolled at Stratford's Grammar School where he was taught by well-paid Oxford men. Shakespeare learned the Latin text, which fired his imagination, and Greek from the Greek New Testament. “William Shakespeare [aged 18] married Anne Hathaway [aged 26] on 28 November 1582, at Worcester, in the province of Canterbury” (William Shakespeare Biography). Their first child was a daughter named Susanna, born on May 26, 1583. They had twins, Hamnet and Judith, two years later, on February 2, 1585. "After the birth of the twins, there are seven years of William's life Shakespeare where no documents exist" (Biography of William Shakespeare). Tragedy struck this family when Hamnet died at the age of eleven from an unknown cause. "In 1597 he was able to purchase a large house, New Place, in his native city" (Encyclopedia International). William Shakespeare was a Protestant who attended the Church of England. This church was a mix between the old Roman Catholic church and the newer Protestant church. The Bible was Shakespeare's greatest source throughout his career as a playwright and poet. He used quotes from "Genesis," "...middle of the paper...daughter Susanna. Although he is entitled to a third of his estate, little appears to have gone to his wife, Anne, who bequeathed his ' second best read'" (Biography of William Shakespeare). "[Shakespeare] was buried in the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, as an illustrious man of Stratford, 25 April 1616" (The Shakespeare Handbook). "Shakespeare's name survived in Stratford through New Place until 1759....., but chiefly through his monument, a framed half-length bust on the north wall of the chancel of Holy Trinity, a few yards from his tomb." (The Shakespeare Handbook). His reputation for dramatic intelligence was not noticed until the nineteenth century." [William Shakespeare's] greatest monument is found not in the Holy Trinity, .... but in libraries, bookstores and homes around the world , in collected editions of his plays" (The Shakespeare Handbook).