
Marriage
William Shakespeare was married to his wife Anne on November 27th, 1582. There is some debate as to the conditions of their union. There were two documents filed by William. Both documents imply his intent to marry a woman named Anne; however, each document refers to different last names. It is believed by some historians that William was in love with one and in lust with the other. Anno Domini Hathwey and Annam Whateley are the names of the two women.
Three possible conclusions can be reached from the records:
1) The Anne Whateley in the first record and the Anne Hathwey in the second record are the same woman. Some scholars believe that the name Whateley was substituted accidentally for Hathwey into the register by the careless clerk.
2) The Wm Shaxpere and the Annam Whateley who wished to marry in Temple Grafton were two different people entirely from the Wm Shagspere and Anne Hathwey who were married in Stratford. This argument relies on the assumption that there was a relative of Shakespeare's living in Temple Grafton, or a man unrelated but sharing Shakespeare's name (which would be extremely unlikely), and that there is no trace of this relative after the issue of his marriage license.
3) The woman Shakespeare loved and the woman Shakespeare finally married were two different Annes. Not many critics support this hypothesis, but those that do use it to portray Shakespeare as a young man torn between the love he felt for Anne Whateley and the obligation he felt toward Anne Hathwey and the child she was carrying, which was surely his. In Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess constructs a vivid scenario to this effect:
Children
The Shakespeare’s had three children. The first was Susanna born in May of 1583. Two years later, in January of 1585, they had twins named Hamnet and Judith, remarkably close to Hamlet and Juliet. Hamnet died in August of 1596, at the age of eleven.
Death
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