At its most basic, the story of William Shakespeare's life is one that has been repeated countless times around the world. A young man in a small town goes to school, gets into a bit of a scrape with a woman, scurries off to a big city, becomes successful, and eventually retires, wealthy and comfortable to the place where he began. As simple as that story is, the fact that it occurred more than 400 years ago introduces a few difficulties. Several important details of Shakespeare's life, for example, simply aren't known. ...
