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John and Mary Shakespeare, Will's parents, had 8 children: Joan, born 1558, Margaret in 1562, Will in 1564, Gilbert in 1566, Joan in 1569, Anne in 1571, Richard in 1574, and Edmund in 1580. Notice two daughters named Joan: the first did not live through childhood, the second Joan, born in 1569, lived to be 77 years old.
Feb 12, 2015 · Michael Wood tells the story of Mary Arden, an ordinary woman in a time of revolution, whose family is rescued from hardship by her successful eldest son - William Shakespeare.
Feb 16, 2018 · Abstract. Shakespeare’s mother was Mary Arden, about whom sufficient is known to help elucidate some of his characterization of powerful mothers in his plays—Emilia, Constance, Countess Rousillon, Gertrude, Volumnia, Hermione, perhaps even Lady Macbeth. The recurrence of a pattern of maternal resurrection, in the years following the death ...
2 days ago · William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon) was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature.
For a book originally penned by siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, their generally brilliant and delightfully readable prose adaptations of twenty of William Shakespeare’s plays, their Tales From Shakespeare, has in my opinion truly held up and aged remarkably well (and is seemingly also still in current print, although some of the out of print earlier editions of Tales From Shakespeare ...
By Shakespeare's World April 5, 2018. Shakespeare’s mother Mary was buried in Stratford-upon-Avon on 9 September 1608 at the end of a long and eventful life. Mary Arden was from a farming family considered to be part of the local gentry in Warwickshire. She was born during the reign of Henry VIII in Wilmcote, a small village with one main ...
An ongoing examination of the literary world of Early Modern England. Companion site to my forthcoming book which tells the story of Shakespeare and Mary Sidney Herbert the extraordinary woman who appears at every turn in the search for the author. Click to read Spearshaker: Ben Jonson, Mary Sidney, and Shakespeare, by David W Richardson, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.
