Chapter I. William Shakespeare’s biography 1 W. Shakespeare’s life

the subsequent day, his new son-in-law, Thomas Quiney turned into located responsible of fathering an illegitimate son with the aid of using Margaret Wheeler, who had died throughout childbirth. Thomas turned into ordered with the aid of using the church courtroom docket to do public penance, which might have triggered plenty disgrace and embarrassment for the Shakespeare family. Shakespeare bequeathed the majority of his big property to his elder daughter Susanna below conditions that she byskip it down intact to "the primary son of her body".The Quineys had 3 youngsters, all of whom died with out marrying. The Halls had one child, Elizabeth, who married two times however died with out youngsters in 1670, finishing Shakespeare's direct line. Shakespeare's will scarcely mentions his wife, Anne, who become possibly entitled to one-0.33 of his property automatically. He did make a point, however, of leaving her "my 2d first-rate mattress", a bequest that has caused an awful lot speculation. Some students see the bequest as an insult to Anne, while others consider that the 2d-first-rate mattress could had been the matrimonial mattress and consequently wealthy in significance. Shakespeare become buried withinside the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church days after his death. The epitaph carved into the stone slab overlaying his grave consists of a curse towards transferring his bones, which become cautiously prevented at some stage in recovery of the church in 2008:
Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare,
To digg the dvst encloased heare.
Bleste be yͤ man yͭ spares thes stones,
And cvrst be he yͭ moves my bones.
(Modern spelling: Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, / To dig the dust enclosed here. / Blessed be the man that spares these stones, / And cursed be he that moves my bones.)
A few time prior than 1623, a funerary landmark got to be raised in his memory at the north divider, with a half-effigy of him withinside the act of composing.
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Its plaque compares him to Nestor, Socrates, and Virgil. In 1623, at the side of the booklet of the Primary Folio, the Droeshout etching got to be distributed. Shakespeare has been loved in parts of statues and memorials across the world, along with memorial service landmarks in Southwark Cathedral and Poets' Corner in Westminster Nunnery.