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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.
John Shakespeare. John Shakespeare was the father of William Shakespeare. 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 ...
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 ...
William Shakespeare’s parents were John and Mary Shakespeare – respectable, middle-class parents who lived in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. Shakespeare’s parents had eight children, five of whom survived to adulthood. William was the third child and their first son.
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.
His father, John Shakespeare, was a glover and public servant with social ambitions, as suggested by his marriage to Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Though born to parents of good social standing, Shakespeare entered the world at a troubled time.
The following is an imagined account from the life of John Shakespeare, William Shakespeare 's father. Transcript: I was really pleased when William got us the coat of arm s. Mind you we ought to have had it twenty years before, when we first tried. William had a bit of a struggle with the College of Heralds because of his being a player, as ...
