Shakespeare Marriages Life
Married Young Girl
Recordings in the Episcopal register at Worcester on the dates of November 27 and 28, 1582, reveal that Shakespeare desired to marry a young girl named Anne. There are two different documents regarding this matter, and their contents have raised a debate over just whom Shakespeare first intended to wed.
Shakespear
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stafford-on-Avon. The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward IV Grammar School in Stafford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, a woman seven or eight years his senior.
Shakespeare's family
Although there are no other records about the young Shakespeare during this period, there is a fair amount of information about his father, a glove-maker who also held a number of public offices over a twenty year period, ranging from borough ale-taster to alderman to bailiff, the highest public office in Stafford. Stafford was a market center for the county of Warwickshire in the rural heartland of England.
First Wife
The Anne Whiteley in the first record and the Anne Hathaway in the second record are the same woman. Some scholars believe that the name Whiteley was substituted accidentally for Hathaway into the register by the careless clerk In 1599 Shakespeare joined a group of Chamberlain’s Men that would form a syndicate to build and operate a new playhouse: the Globe, which became the most famous theater of its time. With his share of the income from the Globe, Shakespeare was able to purchase New Place, his home in Stafford.