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Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Will & Testament. Shakespeare’s will was very much a conventional will, expressed in the language of lawyers, properly witnessed and registered, and taken to London to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to be legally validated on 22 June 1616. The will accounted for everything Shakespeare had owned.
All these interlineations are written out in full in the register copy of Shakespeare's will, proving that they were there by the time Susanna and John Hall proved the will on June 22, 1616. If unnamed conspirators inserted the Burbage/Heminges/Condell bequest, why did they also insert all these other things, including a bequest (the second ...
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- Handling The Will
- Redating The Will
- Rethinking Shakespeare’s Last Months
- Did Shakespeare Hate His Family?
- Is There Any More to Tease Out of The Will?
In 2013, the artist Anna Brass made two films about Shakespeare’s will for us. 1 We looked at his original will, but – like everyone else – were not allowed to handle it. So Anna recreated the original will from a digital image, printing it full size in A3 and in colour, trimming it back to the ragged edges of the original paper, and folding it alo...
Easter was early in 1616, falling on 31 March. It was a hard time for the Shakespeare family. On 25 March William Shakespeare, apparently ill, revised his will. The next day his new son-in-law, Thomas Quiney, confessed in church to fathering a child with another woman. In the next month, the family suffered two deaths: his brother-in-law on 17 Apri...
Redating the will could transform our ideas of the end of Shakespeare’s life. It is often thought that people only wrote wills when they thought they were on their deathbed. It requires considerable speculation to fit Shakespeare’s will into this scenario, leading to claims that: 1. Because he wrote a will in January 1616, he must have been expecti...
A general (but not unanimous) view is that Shakespeare’s will shows him to have been sour, unemotional and unkind, with a dysfunctional family. From this much more has been extrapolated: 1. Judith was resented for out-living her twin brother Hamnet. She was probably uncared-for, unlike his elder daughter Susanna Hall – his favourite, and the lucky ...
Yes, lots more. David Foster and I will be presenting it at the World Shakespeare Congress study day at The National Archives on 8 August, and publishing it in the journal ‘Archives’ in late 2016.
Another interlinear insertion, Shakespeare’s bequest to Richard Burbage, John Heminges, and Henry Condell, three of the King’s Men, confirms his association with members of his playing company to the last days of his life. The fact that he calls them “my ffellowes” may suggest that he still considered himself a King’s Man.
for John Hall to take back to Stratford upon Avon to use as the authority to execute the terms of the will. He would have had to provide the court with an inventory of Shakespeare’s goods, and a detailed account of the income to and expenditure from Shakespeare’s estate that he had authorised as executor. Unfortunately inventories and
TR/46/1/9 Shakespeare's Birthplace: documents of title with signatures of Susanna Hall and Elizabeth Nash (1647) John Hall died suddenly at the age of 60 on 25 th November 1635 and Susanna became sole mistress of New Place, it is possible that she continued her husband’s work in the role of a ‘wise woman’ as the widows of medical men ...
Susanna had married a physician, John Hall, in 1607, and Judith had married Thomas Quiney, a vintner, two months before Shakespeare's death. Shakespeare signed his last will and testament on 25 March 1616; the following day, his new son-in-law, Thomas Quiney was found guilty of fathering an illegitimate son by Margaret Wheeler, who had died ...
