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John was probably born in the 1520s, the son of successful farmer Richard Shakespeare from Snitterfield (a village around two miles from Stratford-upon-Avon). We know John had moved to Stratford by 1552 because on 29 April he is recorded as having paid a fine of one shilling for creating an unwarranted ‘midden heap’ (muck heap) in Henley ...
John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 7 September 1601) was an English businessman and politician who was the father of William Shakespeare. Active in Stratford-upon-Avon , he was a glover and whittawer ( leather worker ) by trade.
- c. 1531, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England
- Mary Arden
John Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Father. William Shakespeare’s father was John Shakespeare, born in 1531 to Richard Shakespeare, a farmer from the village of Snitterfield – about five miles from Stratford upon Avon. John Shakespeare was an ambitious man; not content with a life of farming he moved to the urban centre of Stratford before ...
Author of Shakespeare, Actors, and Audiences and others; editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre ... Professor of English Language and Literature, 1958–78; Director, Shakespeare Institute, 1961–78, University of Birmingham, England.
John Shakespeare was the father of William. He lived between 1531 - 1601. John's father, Richard Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer of Robert Arden of Wilmecote. John was illiterate - he used glovers compasses as his signature! He moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1551 to set up business trading in animals, wool, malt and corn.
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The first quarto editions of his early plays appeared in 1594. For more than two decades, Shakespeare had multiple roles in the London theater as an actor, playwright, and, in time, a business partner in a major acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (renamed the King’s Men in 1603).
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