Who was william shakespeare married to and who was his children?
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He was married to Anne Hathaway. I visited her "cottage" in England.
Shakespeare married a local girl, Anne Hathaway (died 1623), who was eight years older. Their first child, Susannah, was born within six months, and twins Hamnet and Judith were born in 1585. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in 1596, at the age of 11. It has often been suggested, that the lines in King John, beginning with "Grief fills the room of my absent child", reflects Shakespeare's grief.
BTW, while I loved "Shakespeare in Love," it is not historically accurate re: his marriage/girlfriend. Incredibly clever, though.
William Shakespeare had a girlfriend called Mary Arden, but is suspected that he was gay, he did'nt have any children.
He was married to Anne Hathaway and had 3 kids - Hamnet, Judith and Susanna.I think!
When Shakespeare died he left his bed to his wife..how nice of him! XD
Anne Hathaway was his wife, and his children were called Susanna, Hamnet and Judith
william married anne hathaway in 1582 then he had a girl called sususanna in 1583 then he had twins in 1585 hamnet and judith
Hamnet died when he was 11.
William Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway, and had.4 children i think
if you're still not sure, look it up on wikipedia or google
he was married to mary arden they had three kids, judeth, susanna, and hamnet
Mary Arden was Shakespeare's mother! He was married to Anne Hathaway. They had three children, Susannah and twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet died before adulthood.
Hathaway married Shakespeare in November of 1582 while pregnant with his child. Hathaway was 26 years old when she married, whereas Shakespeare was only 18. This age difference, and Hathaway's pregnancy, has been used by some historians as evidence that this was a "shotgun wedding" forced on a reluctant Shakespeare by Hathaway's family. There is, however, no documentary evidence for this inference.
Three children were born to Anne: Susanna in 1583, and the twins Hamnet and Judith in 1585.
It has often been inferred that Shakespeare came to dislike his wife. For most of their married life, he lived in London, writing and performing his plays, while Hathaway stayed in Stratford. Furthermore, in his will, Shakespeare famously left Anne only the "second-best bed."
However, when Shakespeare retired from the theatre in 1613, he chose to live in Stratford, not London. As for the will, a few explanations have been offered for Shakespeare's apparent snub. First, according to law, Hathaway was entitled to receive one third of her husband's estate regardless of his will. Second, it has been speculated that Hathaway would be supported by her children. The National Archives states that "beds and other pieces of household furniture were often the sole bequest to a wife," and that customarily the children would receive the best items, and the widow the second-best. Finally, in Elizabethan custom, the best bed in the house was reserved for guests. Therefore, the bed that Shakespeare bequeathed to Anne could have been their marital bed, and thus significant.
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As for Shakespeare being gay (previous respondant, Wikipedia gives a good, logical explanation:
The question of whether an Elizabethan was "gay" in a modern sense is anachronistic, as the concepts of homosexuality and bisexuality as identities did not emerge until the 19th century; while sodomy was a crime in the period, there was no word for an exclusively homosexual identity. Elizabethans also frequently wrote about friendship in more intense language than is common today.
Commentators have raised the question of whether Shakespeare may have been bisexual, based on interpretations of certain of his works. The Sonnets may not be autobiographical, but pure fiction, and the "speaker" of the Sonnets is not necessarily identified with Shakespeare himself; however, while twenty-six of them are love poems addressed to a married woman (the "Dark Lady"), one hundred and twenty-six are addressed to a young man (known as the "Fair Lord"). The amorous tone of the latter group, which focuses on the young man's beauty, has been interpreted as evidence for Shakespeare's being bisexual, although others interpret them as referring to intense friendship, not sexual love. For example, in 1954, C.S. Lewis wrote that the sonnets are "too lover-like for ordinary male friendship" (although he added that they are not the poetry of "full-blown pederasty") and that he "found no real parallel to such language between friends in the sixteenth-century literature."
Commentators have found similar evidence in the plays. The most commonly cited example is a number of comedies such as Twelfth Night, or What You Will and As You Like It, which contain comic situations in which a woman poses as a man, a device that exploits the fact that in Shakespeare's day women's roles were played by boys. While the situations thus presented are heterosexual in terms of the story, the stage image of men wooing and kissing may well have been titillating to those of a homosexual orientation, and while other dramatists occasionally used the same device, Shakespeare seems to have had an exceptional preference for it, using it in five of his plays.
(as an aside, it must be remembered that women were not allowed to be on stage, so all the female roles were taken by boys - and obviously it was very easy for a boy to pretend to be a boy! You must also remember that the audience knew the women were played by men.)
The national archives website is a link to a copy of his will - and there is a transcript of it there.
I hope this solves your problems!
Ignore the Mary Arden answers, stick with the Anne Hathaway answers. You've got what you need from jas_njw
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