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Actually, there is as much that IS known about the bard as almost any other person of that time. He was, however, a playwright, and no one would have guessed that his fame would extend past these many centuries. "Will in the World" was a good book that documented Shakespeare's life as well as any I've read. Peter Ackroyd had a more recent book, I believe that garnered even better reviews, but which I have not read. The scuttlebutt that continues about a lack of hard information was propagated by those who felt a non-aristocrat simply did not have the skill nor the "brains" to write as well as he did. Of course we have a raft of people held up as the actual author, the best known of which was Francis Bacon. All poppycock. Give the Shakespeare bios a chance. You won't be disappointed with "Will in the World," and the others probably are also good.
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