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William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
William’s father, John Shakespeare (1531-1601), was the son of Richard Shakespeare, a farmer from the village of Snitterfield, five miles from Stratford. John Shakespeare was ambitious; at the age of 20, not content with a life of farming he moved to the urban centre of Stratford. Four years later he married Mary Arden (1537-1608). It is ...
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.
Presumably John Shakespeare carried out his duties satisfactorily as, on October 6, 1559 (Minutes and Accounts, i, p. 101), he was re-elected for the following year. Before Stratford-upon-Avon’s charter of incorporation was granted in 1553, a manorial court, held twice yearly before the lord of the manor’s stewards, had managed most of the ...
John Shakespeare’s grant is dated October 20, 1596. The volume once belonged to Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701), who left his entire library to Queen’s College, Oxford, upon his death. Williamson had acquired the heraldic papers of the Catholic antiquary Sir Thomas Shirley of St. Botolph’s Bridge (ca.1590-1654) and of Lancaster Herald ...
Feb 13, 2024 · John Shakespare is generally accepted to be the son of Richard Shakespeare, a tenant farmer in Snitterfield, a village about four miles from Stratford. His father occupied land owned by Robert Arden of the nearby village of Wilmcote. [1] [2] His earlier ancestry remains unclear. [1] A grant of coat of arms to him in 1599 recounted that:
When John Shakespeare was born on 8 May 1531, in Bishops Tachbrook, Warwickshire, England, his father, Richard Shakespeare, was 21 and his mother, Abigail Webb, was 15. He married Mary Arden in June 1557, in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters.
