His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
He died the same day as Cervantes
He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26.
There are six surviving copies of his signature
His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague
He was an actor as well as a playwright.
Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare…
His father was a glove maker and leather worker.
As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It
Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions.
There are only two authentic portraits of William today; the widely used engraving of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
He died the same day as Cervantes
He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26.
There are six surviving copies of his signature
His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague
He was an actor as well as a playwright.
Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare…
His father was a glove maker and leather worker.
As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It
Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions.
There are only two authentic portraits of William today; the widely used engraving of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
In his will Shakespeare left his wife “the second best bed”.
His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
He died the same day as Cervantes
He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26.
There are six surviving copies of his signature
His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague
He was an actor as well as a playwright.
Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare…
His father was a glove maker and leather worker.
As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It
Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions.
There are only two authentic portraits of William today; the widely used engraving of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
In his will Shakespeare left his wife “the second best bed”.
Shakespeare has no living direct descendants, since two of his children never had children and his grandchildren all died young. William Davenant was rumored to be his biological (illegitimate) son but there is no evidence to back up the rumor.
About the “second best bed”: supposedly in Jacobean times the “best” bed was for guests and the second best was the marital bed. And maybe Anne liked the second best bed better than the best one.
New topic: any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince”