William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564 and died on 26 April 1616. Stratford-upon-Avon was William's birthplace and he lived there until his death. The Renaissance was a period of rebirth of art and literature; took place in the years 1500-1688. William Shakespeare, long considered the greatest writer of plays in the English language, was asked whether he actually wrote his own plays. Shakespeare couldn't have written those plays himself, when everything is evident, you have to accept it. A provincial man became a world-famous poet, yet no one understands how the son of a Stratford merchant became so famous in such a small amount of time. William was a commoner, born to John Shakespeare, an illiterate merchant and fur trader. No one in Shakespeare's entire family could read, yet William supposedly created literary masterpieces. The only documentation written by Williams' children comes from his daughter Judith's marriage license and is simply an X (Oxford Authorship). Shakespeare studied the classics, rhetoric, history, and Latin grammar, but the diverse experiences described in his plays suggest that he would have needed to travel to experiment. He could not have understood political languages ​​and theories just by studying books and being in a classroom (did Shakespeare write his plays?). Being a commoner, William would not have had enough money or ways to travel to gain the knowledge needed to write the works and what he talks about in them. According to the people of Stratford he was known as a businessman and not as a playwright. The way his assets were divided, every single asset and piece of land, suggests that he was a businessman. Everything was given to his loved ones, all the water......medium of paper......writing was not a job suitable for a person of nobility, if a high class person wanted to write it it would have been necessary that they made use of a ghost writer. (Kip Wheeler). Sir Francis Bacon is thought to have neglected his work and then asserted himself later in his life due to the shame of a nobility who wrote plays; “Truth be told, I have often consciously and willfully neglected the glory of my name and culture (if there ever is such a thing) both in the works I publish now, and in those I devise for hereafter, as I study to promote the good and profit of mankind” (qtd. Francis Bacon Signatures). It appears that this quote was directed at the debate over whether he actually wrote the plays. Shakespeare must have had help or not to have written the plays and sonnets, Sir Francis' name is present on all the plays and in the citation he also claims the works.