Реферат: Shakespears Life Essay Research Paper England

friends. His gravestone bears the words:-

Good frend for Jesus sake forebeare,

to digg the dust encloased heare,

Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones,

And curst be he yt moves my bones.

In his will Shakespeare left his wife, the former Anne

Hathaway, his second best bed. We cannot be sure of the

reason for this. It may have been the marital bed the

best bed being reserved for guests. It may suggest that

they had a not altogether happy marriage which

nevertheless produced three children, Susanna, born on

May 26th 1583 and twins , Hamnet and Judith, born on

February 2nd 1585. These entries appear in the Holy

Trinity Register.

There is no direct evidence of the marriage of William

Shakespeare to Anne Hathaway although most historians

accept that an entry in the Bishop’s Register at

Worcester in November 1582 regarding the issue of a

marriage licence to William Shaxpere and Anne Whateley

of Temple Grafton does not refer to the famous bard.

However the following day a guarantee of ?40 was

undertaken in Stratford by two yeomen of the town

against the prevention of the legal marriage of William

Shagspere and Anne Hathway on only one reading of the

banns. In 1582 , ?40 was a considerable sum of money

and one cannot believe that the simple fact of Anne’s

being three months pregnant would warrant it. No

marriage of an Anne Whatelely has ever been traced,

neither has the marriage of Anne Hathway, but lack of