16. yüzyılda İngilizler
- John Shakespeare moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1551, where he became a successful businessman involved in several related occupations.
- John was probably born in the 1520s, the son of successful farmer Richard Shakespeare from Snitterfield (a village around two miles from Stratford-upon-Avon).
- William Shakespeare’s father was John Shakespeare, born in 1531 to Richard Shakespeare, a farmer from the village of Snitterfield – about five miles...
- John Shakespeare was the father of William
- John's father, Richard Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer of Robert Arden of Wilmecote
- John was illiterate - he used glovers compasses as his signature!
- His father, John Shakespeare, was a burgess of the borough, who in 1565 was chosen an alderman and in 1568 bailiff (the position corresponding to mayor, before...
- THE MARRIAGE OF SHAKESPEARES PARENTS The marriage between Mary Arden and John Shakespeare in 1557 must certainly raised a few eyebrows!
- John Shakespeare, together with John Taylor, appears to have been elected as a chamberlain of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation in the autumn of 1561.
- “Martyr” is an ingenious debut of the John Shakespeare series of novels introducing the Elizabethan era intelligence operative John Shakespeare.
- In 1583 Edward Arden, a Catholic who is thought to be a relative of John Shakespeare's wife, was executed for plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.