23 Apr 1564 Jahr - Shakespeare Was Born

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There’s no record of Shakespeare’s birth. On this date he was christened. England was under the reign of Elizabeth I who changed the official religion from Catholic to Protestant. There was a lot of tension between these two sects, something we see reflected in his work. John Shakespeare was a member of the borough council of Stratford-upon-Avon. In other words, his dad was a council worker – pretty dull really. We know he was the third of eight children, but the two eldest children didn’t survive infancy making him, in fact, the eldest of six

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