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Shakespeare's Descendants

William and Anne Shakespeare had three children; Susanna was born six months after their marriage and was followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585.

Shakespeare had four grandchildren who all died without heirs, so there are no direct descendants of his line today. Susanna and John Hall’s only daughter, Elizabeth, married twice but both marriages remained childless. Judith and Thomas Quiney’s sons all died at an early age, either in infancy or as young adults before having children.

It is possible, however, to claim a relationship to Shakespeare through his sister, Joan. She married William Hart some time before 1600 and there are many descendants of this marriage alive today, in both the male and female lines.

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Family

William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John and Mary Shakespeare. John Shakespeare trained as a glove-maker and married Mary Arden, the daughter of a farmer from the nearby village of Wilmcote. When William was born, John and Mary were living on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, in the house now known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. They had eight children in total.

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Family

William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John and Mary Shakespeare. John Shakespeare trained as a glove-maker and married Mary Arden, the daughter of a farmer from the nearby village of Wilmcote. When William was born, John and Mary were living on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, in the house now known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. They had eight children in total.

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Works

His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living languageand are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[

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Modern day

In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been repeatedly adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

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Political views

Shakespeare is generally praised for the immense variety of human types he portrays in his plays. ... The way Christianity alters the terms of politics, especially by introducing a transpolitical perspective on human life, is at the core of several of Shakespeare's plays, including Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.

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Shakespeare enters King's New School in 1569, an excellent grammar school in Stratford attended by the sons of civil servants like his father. Boys typically enter the school around the age of five, but since no official records survive its impossible to know exactly when Shakespeare starts his education. Other than the dates of his marriage and children's births, little is known about Shakespeare's life before 1592—a period known as the "Lost Years."

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William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. The fourth of the Shakespeares' eight children shares a birthday with St. George, the patron saint of England. (Note: Though April 23 is commonly accepted as Shakespeare's birthday, it's impossible to know the exact date he was born.

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Apr 23, 1564-Apr 23, 1616