Shakespeare's family

A scholarly inquiry into the relations, ancestry and descendants of William Shakespeare, patiently sifting parish records, wills and documents to reconstruct the ordinary family that surrounded the…

At a glance

  • Behind the towering name stood ordinary people, parents and children, cousins and…
  • This study sets out to find them.
  • What it's about Shakespeare's Family is a work of biographical and genealogical…
  • Drawing on surviving records, it examines his ancestry, his parents and siblings, his…

Shakespeare's Family is a work of biographical and genealogical scholarship devoted to the people connected to William Shakespeare by blood and marriage.

Shakespeare's family

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