Edmund Shakespeare
Edmund Shakespeare (1580, Stratford-upon-Avon – 1607, London) was a 16th and 17th century English actor.
Life
He was the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden and thus the younger brother of the playwright William Shakespeare. He followed William to London to become an actor. While an actor, he had an affair with an unknown woman around 1600 and fathered a son, Edward Shakespeare. He died in 1607, and 20 shillings was paid for his burial (possibly by William) at St Saviour's in Southwark "with a forenoone knell of the great bell".
He appears, as does his more famous brother, as a character in the historical novel At the Sign of the Globe by Gwendolyn Bowers and The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees.
Sources
- S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: a documentary life (1975), page 26
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This does not include all of Shakespeare's siblings, only the notable ones.
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1580 |
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1607 |
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