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[a] She married a hatter named William Hart with whom she had four children, William (1600–1639), Mary (1603–1606), Thomas (1605–1661), and Michael (1608–1618). She may have been a secret Catholic, the author of the "J. Shakespeare" who wrote a Catholic testament. (See Religious views of William Shakespeare#Shakespeare's family.)
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William was born in April 1564 in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, to John Shakespeare and his wife Mary Arden. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 at Holy Trinity, Stratford, and entered in the parish register as: "Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere" (William son of John Shakspere).His exact date of birth is not recorded, but is...
In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of Richard Hathaway, husbandman, of Shottery, a small village about a mile west of Stratford. William was age 18 and Anne was about 26. The date and location of their wedding are unknown, other than it was held after the Bishop of Worcester granted them a marriage licence on 27 November 1582.A marriage...
The earliest surviving record of Shakespeare's rise in the London theatre scene is from 1592, when Robert Greene's pamphlet, Groates-worth of Witte, attacked him as: By this time he is thought to have written the parts of Henry VI, Taming of the Shrew, perhaps The Comedy of Errors and other plays, although it is difficult to date them with precisio...
His playwriting career continued until 1613. According to his early biographers, he retired to Stratford "some years before his death,"although evidence suggests he continued to travel to London until at least 1614. He died at Stratford on 23 April 1616 from an undocumented illness.He had made his will less than one month earlier on 25 March 1616 i...
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- April 23, 1616
- Anne (Hathaway) Shakespeare
When Joan Shakespeare was born on 15 April 1569, in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Shakespeare, was 32 and her mother, Mary Arden, was 30. She had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with William Hart. She died on 1 November 1646, in her hometown, at the age of 77, and was buried in Stratford on Avon ...
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- William Hart
Sep 12, 2020 · Joan Shakespeare was born in Warwickshire, England. Joan Shakespeare died young. Joan Shakespeare was the first of eight children of John Shakespeare, glover, of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and his wife Mary Arden . She was baptised on 15 September 1558 at Holy Trinity, Stratford, and entered in the parish register as "Jone shakespere ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 September 2024. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
Joan was born in 1569 and Anne in Their parents, John and Mary Shakespeare, also had two daughters before William was born, both dying in infancy. Shakespeare also had three younger brothers – Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund. Joan was the only sibling to outlive William. Anne died at the age of 8.
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May 13, 2021 · Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway. In 1582, at the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, who was already around three months pregnant with their daughter Susanna. The Hathaways – tenant farmers with 90 acres of land in the nearby village of Shottery – were acquaintances of the Shakespeares, and William may have ...
