Edmund Shakespeare

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Edmund Shakespeare (1580, Stratford-upon-Avon – buried 31 December 1607, London) was a 16th- and 17th-century English actor.

Life

He was the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden and thus the youngest 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, though there is no evidence it was around 1600, and fathered a son, Edward Shakespeare, in one record noted wrongly as Edmund Sharksbye. He died in 1607, at the age of 27, four months after that baby boy, and in the same year Susanna Shakespeare was married, William's daughter, 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".

Sources

S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: a documentary life (1975), page 26

v t e Family of William Shakespeare

Richard Shakespeare John Shakespeare Mary Arden Gilbert Shakespeare Joan Shakespeare Edmund Shakespeare Anne Hathaway Hamnet Shakespeare Susanna Hall John Hall Thomas Nash Elizabeth Barnard Judith Quiney Thomas Quiney

Part of William Shakespeare's family tree

John Barnard

Shakespeare Quiney

Leon Doig

This does not include all of Shakespeare's siblings, only the notable ones.

Persondata
Name	Shakespeare, Edmund
Alternative names
Short description	Youngest brother of William, Richard and Gilbert
Date of birth	1580
Place of birth	Stratford
Date of death	31 December 1607
Place of death	Southwark

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