ENGL 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: First Folio, New Place, Making Money
28 Feb 2017
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Record of his baptism on april 26th 1564. George"s day: we know because of his monument he was born and died the same day. Variants of his name: according to e. k. Chambers, 83 variant spellings of the name shakespeare. Oldest surviving child of his parents who were from different social classes: his mom (mary) higher than his father (john) First record of john is when he is given a fine for building something illegally outside of what we (cid:374)ow k(cid:374)ow as hakespeare"s house. John shakespeare was a glove-maker and seller of various things and tenant. No such thing as english literature or history at school in this time. Shakespeare did actually have some education about greek. Plays would play for the town council. John would take william to see the plays exposure. Married at 26, william 18: susanna born 1583, hamnet and judith born 1585, hamnet died 1596. Died when he was still a child.
