Because there was a reawakening of interest in art, literature and science between 1300 and 1600, it is fitting to call his period the renaissance, since it means rebirth.
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was baptised on 26 April 1564.
She wore a red flower in her hair
