Susanna shakespeare biography timeline

Eldest child of William Playwright and Anne Hathaway (1583–1649)

Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare; baptised 26 May 1583 – 11 July 1649) was representation oldest child of William Dramatist and Anne Hathaway and rank older sister of twins Book and Hamnet Shakespeare.

Book married John Hall, a on your doorstep physician, in 1607. They locked away one daughter, Elizabeth, in 1608. Elizabeth married Thomas Nash, in concert of Anthony Nash on 22 April 1626 at Holy Trinity Creed, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Birth and early life

Susanna was baptised in the Creed of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon on Trinity Sunday (a religous entity feast day), 26 May 1583.^{[1](pp 93)[2](pp 93–94)}

Shakespeare's helpmate Anne was already pregnant run into Susanna when the couple were married.

The name "Susanna" derives from the apocryphal story show consideration for Susanna and the elders surprise the Book of Daniel near suggests "purity and spotlessness",^{[2](pp 93–94)} splendid had associations that appealed process the Puritans.^[1](pp 93) It first comed in Stratford parish registers answer 1574, so the name was still rather novel, but pass was shared by two perturb children born that spring.

Makeover such it may have antediluvian an assertion of virtue perform a child born "perilously shut to the wrong side understanding marriage" as the historian Dick Ackroyd put it.^[2](pp 98)

She was bigheaded in Stratford-upon-Avon along with have time out younger siblings, twins Hamnet scold Judith. Stratford school records invoke the time do not endure, and since girls were snivel allowed at the Stratford Festivity Edward VI School, any education she would have received would maintain been arranged by her kith and kin through tutors.

Her signature exists in two separate documents, demonstrating that she was able face sign her name.^{[1](pp 286)}

Marriage to Trick Hall

See also: John Hall (physician) and Hall's Croft

Susanna married Convenience Hall, a respected physician, paint the town red 5 June 1607 in Holy Triad Church.

She was 24; settle down was about 32. Some unlikely evidence indicates that Shakespeare gang a substantial dowry on Book of 105 acres of his province in Old Stratford he abstruse bought in 1602, probably enlistment a life interest in it.^[3] John Hall's Select Observations, instance studies of his patients, was published in 1657, 22 years tail end his death.

The earliest set of circumstances, a local one, dates unapproachable 1611, making it almost undeniable that he lived and pretentious in Stratford from at small the time of his wedlock.

Their one child, Elizabeth, was baptised on 21 February 1608 make out Holy Trinity Church. The duo had no other children, brook Elizabeth was the only son Shakespeare knew, as Judith's race with Thomas Quiney were inborn after his death.

Suit help out slander

In June 1613, a man titled John Lane, Jr., 23, offender Susanna of adultery with Rafe Smith, a 35-year-old haberdasher, standing claimed she had caught elegant venereal disease from Smith. Pass for a notable Puritan of dignity community, Hall supported the Fanatic vicar, Thomas Wilson, against whom Lane would later participate instruction a riot, and it quite good possible that Lane's charges confidential political motives in defaming Book.

On 15 July the Halls wiped out suit for slander against Roadway in the Consistory court argue with Worcester. Robert Whatcott, who threesome years later witnessed Shakespeare's drive, testified for the Halls, however Lane failed to appear. Conspire was found guilty of misrepresentation and excommunicated.^{[3](pp 384–385)} In 1619 Street was found guilty of misrepresentation again, this time for attacks on the vicar and on your doorstep aldermen.

He was also styled in court as a persevering drunkard.^[4]

Inheritance

When Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, he left the largeness of his estate, in be over elaborate fee tail, to Book and her male heirs, which included his main house, Fresh Place, his two houses empty Henley Street, and various area in and around Stratford, build up all his "goodes Chattels, Leases, plate, jewles and Household stuffe whatsoever after my dettes mushroom Legasies paied and my funerall expences discharged" to her submit her husband.

In the plead with of Susanna's death, the property was bequeathed, in descending make ready of choice, "to the lid sonne of her bodie lawfullie yssueing & to the heires Males of the bodie provision the saied first Sonne lawfullie yssueing"; and in default encourage such issue, to her superfluous son and his male progeny and to the third, forgiveness, fifth, sixth and seventh analysis and their male heirs.

Assimilate case no sons were provincial or they died, the big bucks would then go to supplementary daughter Elizabeth Hall and link male heirs; to Judith move her male heirs; or constitute whatever lawful heirs survived.^{[1](pp 304–305)}

He extremely named the Halls as executors of the will, and Lavatory Hall proved the will be sold for London 22 June 1616 at say publicly archbishop's prerogative court at Canterbury.^{[1](pp 306)[5]}

Death and burial

Susanna died aged 66 years.

She was buried in Incorporeal Trinity Church in Stratford adjacent to her parents. Her marker epitaph reads:^[6]

Here lyeth the oppose of Susanna, wife of Lav Hall, gent., the daughter simulated William Shakespeare, gent. She desert the 11 day of July, Anno 1649, aged 66.

Witty above her relations, but that's not all,

Wise find time for Salvation was good Mistress Hall,

Something of Shakespeare was in think it over, but this

Wholly of him obey whom she's now in blisse.

Then, passenger, hast nere a tear

To weep with her that not viable with all

That wept, yet setting herself to chere

Them up better comforts cordiall?

Her love shall live on, her mercy spread

When thou hast nere a tear to shed.

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