Curated playlist
Shakespeare family
- William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare called himself in "perfect health" in his will, then died within a month.
- Mary ShakespeareFor decades, the wrong farmhouse was shown as Mary Arden's childhood home. Researchers corrected it in 2000.
- John Hall (physician)Physician John Hall and his wife Susanna sued a man who accused her of adultery. Susanna was Shakespeare's daughter.
- Susanna HallIn 1613, a man accused Shakespeare's daughter Susanna Hall of adultery, and she sued him.
- Thomas Nash (relative of Shakespeare)Thomas Nash willed away Shakespeare's New Place, a house he did not own. His widow's mother proved in court it was hers.
- Judith QuineyJudith Quiney, Shakespeare's daughter, married in 1616 without a needed license, and her husband was excommunicated.
- Thomas QuineyThomas Quiney married Shakespeare's daughter Judith during Lent without a license and was excommunicated.
- Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)Anne Shakespeare, better known as Anne Hathaway, received only one bequest in her husband's will: his "second-best bed with the furniture". She outlived the playwright William Shakespeare by seven years. Yet the surviving record of her…
- Hamnet ShakespeareIn Stratford, Hamlet was simply another spelling of Hamnet, the name of Shakespeare's dead son.
- John ShakespeareBy January 1586, officers said John Shakespeare had nothing they could seize. He had once been Stratford's mayor.