Who Was Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare was born in 1564, probably on April 22 or 23 and died April 23, 1616. He was married at 18 to Anne Hathaway.  He had two daughters, Susanna and Judeth, and a son, Hamnet, who died at 11.  The first work with his name on it was Love's Labours's Lost. He had written other works and dedicated them to aristocracy who would get them published, albeit, under somebody else's name.  Clearly, this is just asking for illegitimacy claims.
People don't like Shakespeare and I think it's because they don't get it.  They're is so much more to his work than meets the eye.  Most students probably aren't told how intricately his syllables are placed so they can't see his genius.  Also, it isn't the most modern English so many of us can get lost in the archaic words.  Lots of it can be understood with knowledge of another language and a scholastic vocabulary but, here in America, neither of those are very common.  I was dumbstruck when I first learned how he wrote.  I was also intense in my attention to his words.  Now, it takes less effort to understand his message.  Whether that is due to a grown vocabulary or simply experience is unclear.  Probably a mixture of the two.  Still, the symbolism can sometimes whoosh right over my head. " Get thee to a nunnery," though, that's wicked harsh but I truly lol'd.