Not much is known about Joan Shakespeare Hart. Born in 1569, five years after the famous bard, she was the only one of William’s seven siblings to survive him. We know that Joan married a hatter ...

Judith is the talented twin of her better-known brother William. She possesses his talents ... Professor Ramie Targoff's new book Shakespeare's Sisters examines the scope of this claim, by recovering ...

John Shakespeare, was a member of the borough council of Stratford-upon-Avon. William was the third of eight children, though his two elder siblings did not survive childhood. Details of ...

In “Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance,” Targoff profiles the lives and works of Mary Sidney, Aemelia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, and Anne Clifford, whose works of poetry ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...