Who was Shakespeare?

When talking about Shakespeare, it is interesting to me to see how much people don't know about him. From doing a bit of research I found out that he was born in 1564 and was the son of a merchant and glove maker. He married the daughter of a farmer and had a child with her. Of course may of his works are well known in explaining the nature of humanity. I would have never thought that people were questioning his works and saying that someone else wrote the plays for him. In the article we read and discussed in class, it is interesting on seeing how people are stereotyping him since he came from a lower class and think that someone from a lower class could not have written such great works of writing.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/shakespeare.html