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William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564[a] in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, in the Holy Trinity Church. At age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children. He died in his home town of Stratford on 23 April 1616 at the age of 52. Though more is known about Shakespeare's life than those of most other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, few personal biographical facts survive, which is unsurprising in the light of his social status as a commoner, the low esteem in which his profession was held, and the general lack of interest of the time in the personal lives of writers.[2][3][4][5][6] Information about his life derives from public instead of private documents: vital records, real estate and tax records, lawsuits, records of payments, and references to Shakespeare and his works in printed and hand-written texts. Nevertheless, hundreds of biographies have been written and more continue to be, most of which rely on inferences and the historical context of the 70 or so hard facts recorded about Shakespeare the man, a technique that sometimes leads to embellishment or unwarranted interpretation of the documented record

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Shakespeare genealogy[edit]

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William Shakespeare's family tree

Direct ascendants and descendants of William Shakespeare are shown with a blue background  Shakespeare's siblings are shown with a red background  Anne Hathaway and ascendants are shown with a yellow background  People related to Shakespeare only through marriage are shown with a green background  Relations whose identity is not known are shown with a dashed border |  Years given are usually approximate and typically reflect baptismal and burial years, rather than birth and death.
For remarriages, the number in parentheses after the name indicates the order of the marriages.
|  | Richard
Shakespeare
(1490–1561) |  | (unknown) |  | (unknown) |  | Robert
Arden
(–1556)
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|  |  |  |  |  | John
Shakespeare
(1531–1601) |  | Mary
Arden
(1537–1608) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (unknown) (1) |  | Richard
Hathaway
(–1581) |  | Joan
Hathaway (2)
(–1599)
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Joan
(1558–1558) |  |  | Margaret
(1562–1563) |  |  | Gilbert
Shakespeare
(1566–1612) |  |  | Joan
Shakespeare
(1569–1646) |  | William
Shakespeare
(1564–1616) |  | Anne
Hathaway
(1555–1623)
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|  | Anne
(1571–1579) |  | Richard
(1574–1613) |  | Edmund
Shakespeare
(1580–1607) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

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|  |  |  |  | John
Hall
(1575–1635) |  | Susanna
Hall
(1583–1649) |  |  |  |  |  |  | Judith
Quiney
(1585–1662) |  | Thomas
Quiney
(1589–1662) |  |  |  |  | Hamnet
Shakespeare
(1585–1596)
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|  |  | Thomas
Nash (1)
(1593–1647) |  | Elisabeth
Barnard
(1608–1670) |  | John
Barnard (2)
(1604–1674) |  |  | Shakespeare
Quiney
(1616–1617) |  | Richard
Quiney
(1618–1639) |  | Thomas
Quiney
(1620–1639)
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Sources Chambers, E. K. (1930). William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. Vol. I 11–12, 18, Vol. II 8–9. OCLC 353406.Schoenbaum, S. (1977). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 292. ISBN 0195051610.