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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare grew up in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. His family were rich so he went to a good school and grew up to be a playwright. He wrote different types of plays ...

Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...