Shakespeare
No one knows the exact date of William Shakespeare’s birth. His baptism occurred on Wednesday, April 26, 1564. His father was John Shakespeare, tanner, glover, dealer in grain, and town official of Stratford; his mother, Mary, was the daughter of Robert Arden, a prosperous gentleman-farmer. The Shakespeares lived on Hensley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
2 Under a bond dated November 28, 1582, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway entered into a marriage contract. The baptism of their eldest child, Susanna, took place in Stratford in May 1583. One year and nine months later their twins, Hamnet and Judith, were christened in the same church. The parents named them for the poet’s friends Hamnet and Judith Sadler.
3 On March 25, 1616, William Shakespeare revised his last will and testament. He died on April 23 of the same year. His body lies within the chancel and before the altar of the Stratford church. A rather wry inscription is carved upon his tombstone:
4 Good Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here;
Blest be the man that spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones.
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