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Apr 26, 1564
birth of william shakespear
William Shakespear was born on April 26, 1564. -
Marriage
On November 28, 1582 the Bishop of Worcester issued the marriage bond for "William Shagspere" and "Ann Hathwey of Stratford." -
lord chamberlain man
work in the theater had proceeded through 1592, it all changed when in January 1593 the theaters in London were closed on account of the plague. From December 1592 until December 1593 Stow (the Elizabethan archivist) reports 10,675 plague deaths--in a city of approximately 200,000. -
Upstart Crow
Perhaps the most famous literary snarl ever was penned in 1592 by Robert Greene in his Groats-worth of Witte. The passage is famous because it clearly refers to William Shakespeare ("Shake-scene") and is the first documentary evidence we have of his rise to prominence in the London theater world, indeed the first direct documentary evidence regarding him at all since the baptism of the twins in 1585.