Life and Times

Abstract

According to the Parish Register of the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwickshire, ‘Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere’ was baptised on 26 April 1564. He was probably but not certainly born on 23 April. His mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a wealthy landowner, and his father, John Shakespeare, was a glovemaker who held a number of prominent positions in local politics. In the year of William’s birth more than 200 Stratford people out of a population of fewer than 1500 died of bubonic plague. The harshness of life at the time can be gauged from the fact that of John and Mary’s eight children only five survived into adulthood.

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