SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.  Born at Stratford on Avon, Apr. 23, 1564; died
  there Apr. 23, 1616, and buried in Stratford church.  Probably attended
  Stratford Grammar School; married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years
  his senior, Nov., 1582; a daughter, Susanna, born May 1, 1583; twins,
  Hamnet and Judith, born 1585.  About 1585 went to London, and became
  connected with the theater as actor, reviser of old plays, etc.  His
  son Hammet died 1596; his father applied for a coat of arms 1596. 
  Bought New Place at Stratford 1597; coat of arms granted 1599;
  shareholder in Globe theater 1599.  His father died 1601; his daughter
  Susanna married to John Hall, a physician at Stratford, 1607; his
  mother died 1608.  Retired from theatre and returned to Stratford about
  1611.  His daughter Judith married to Thomas Quinney, a vintner, 1616;
  his wife died 1623; last descendant, Lady Bernard, died 1670.  Folio
  edition of his plays 1623.  Characterized by surpassing ability in both
  comedy and tragedy, extraordinary insight into human character, and
  supreme mastery of language.  Besides his plays, which are too well
  known to require listing, he wrote “Sonnets,” “Venus and Adonis” and
  “The Rape of Lucrece.” A Good Name, 109; Cowards, 194; Good
  Deeds, 216; Having Done and Doing, 52; Opportunity, 54; Order
  and the Bees, 75; Painting the Lily, 188; Polonius’s Advice to
  Laertes, 49; Sadness and Merriment, 218; Sleep and the Monarch,
  142; Stability, 157; The Belly and the Members, 152; The Life
  Without Passion, 213.

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE.  Born at Field Place, Sussex, Eng., Aug. 4, 1792;
  drowned off Vireggio, Italy, July 8, 1822.  Educated at Eton 1804-10;
  expelled from Oxford for publication of pamphlet “The Necessity of
  Atheism” 1811.  Married Harriet Westbrook 1811; left her 1814, and went
  to Switzerland with Mary Godwin; returned to England 1815; received
  L1000 a year from his grandfather’s estate 1815.  Harriet drowned
  herself 1816, and he formally married Mary the next month.  They went
  to Italy 1818; he was drowned on a voyage to welcome Leigh Hunt to
  Italy; his body burned on a funeral pyre in the presence of Byron,
  Hunt, and Trelawney.  Some of his well-known poems are “Queen Mab,”
  “Alastor,” “The Revolt of Islam,” “Prometheus Unbound,” “Adonais,” “To
  a Skylark,” and “Ode to the West Wind”; he also wrote a poetical
  tragedy, “The Cenci.” Prometheus Unbound, 184.

SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND.  Born at Windsor, Conn., 1841; died at Cleveland,
  Ohio, Feb. 27, 1887.  Graduated from Yale 1861; professor of English at
  University of California 1874-82. Faith, 112; Life, 99;
  Opportunity, 56.