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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 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 shilling for creating an unwarranted ‘midden heap’ (muck heap) in Henley ...
22 de abr. de 2024 · El más célebre autor de la historia de la literatura inglesa fue aplaudido, admirado e incluso "idolatrado" en vida por las decenas de miles de personas que asistieron a las representaciones de sus obras en Londres. Pero esa fama no impidió que la personalidad y la biografía misma de William Shakespeare quedaran envueltas en sombras.
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 ...
31 de jul. de 2020 · Since William Shakespeare lived more than 400 years ago, and many records from that time are lost or never existed in the first place, we don’t know everything about Shakespeare’s life. For example, we know that he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, 100 miles northwest of London, on April 26, 1564.
John Shakespeare. 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 ...
23 de abr. de 2023 · ¿Por qué mueren casi todos los personajes de Shakespeare? ¿Qué escritor ruso criticó la obra del dramaturgo inglés? ¿Cuántas palabras inventó el escritor? Te contamos estas y otras interesantes curiosidades sobre la vida y obra de William Shakespeare.
