No William Shakespeare was not a lawyer! He wrote plays .
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Portia in The Merchant of Venice disguises herself as a lawyer named Balthasar.
No. They probably never met, and there would have been no point in collaboration. Shakespeare was basically a high-school graduate working as a commercial writer in the world of theatre. Bacon was a lawyer and philosopher and wrote about those things. They had nothing in common.
Susanna Shakespeare was a girl. So was Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet Shakespeare was a boy though.
The ones we know about were his mother, Mary Arden Shakespeare, his sisters Anne Shakespeare and Joan Shakespeare Hart, his wife Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, and his daughters Susanna Shakespeare Hall and Judith Shakespeare Quiney.
John Shakespeare, (William Shakespeare's father) was born in 1530.