[DOC] [TLE] Grade 5: Unit 16: Lesson 1: The Bard of Avon Session 1 Flashcards ... [PAR] My friend's plays were so much like poetry, we started calling her the Bard of 
Boston. ... audience would spread the plague if the crowded theaters were 
permitted to remain open ... John Shakespeare, William's father, was the high 
bailiff, or mayor, ... the high bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon, a company of traveling 
players came... [DOC] [TLE] John Shakespeare - Wikipedia [PAR] John Shakespeare (c. 1531  7 September 1601) was the father of William 
Shakespeare. He was the son of Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield, a farmer. 
He moved to Stratford-upon-Avon and married Mary Arden, with whom he .... 
Such illicit trade would have been profitable to his glove business by avoiding the
... [DOC] [TLE] Shakespeare's Historic Stratford-upon-Avon [PAR] The Old Market House, where John Shakespeare would have traded with other 
glovers ... Of more immediate concern, we were all surprised to hear that in April 
this ... year the death out at Snitterfield of Richard Shakespeare, the father of 
John, .... of Leicester`s company of travelling players, to whom the bailiff gave 5s 
8d. [DOC] [TLE] The Parents of William Shakespeare [PAR] John worked as a farmer with his father but in 1551 he moved to Stratford to set 
up ... Their courtship would not have been without problems as John was only of 
.... 1568 John Shakespeare ( father of the Bard ) became Bailiff of Stratford... [DOC] [TLE] The Elizabethan People/Chapter 2 - Wikisource, the free online library [PAR] Feb 20, 2011 ... Far and wide people of substance were removing to pleasanter and now safe 
retreats in rural England. ... and travelling players, among whom we find 
Shakespeare himself. .... than would serve to line through my lord what-call-ye-
him's coach. ... Now that the restorations of the Stratford church are complete,... [DOC] [TLE] Prologue: Shakespeare's early life and the origins of commercial ... [PAR] The social origins of playwrights and players are contrasted. ... in London, 
Shakespeare's closest affiliations would have been with the first of these two 
groups. ... In 1576 William Shakespeare, eldest son of an alderman of Stratford, 
was studying .... The poet was still young in 1576 and the impact of his father's 
problems was... [DOC] [TLE] Shakespeare played here - St Mary's Guildhall [PAR] smaller trade guilds in the city were even hiring rooms at St. Mary's Guildhall to 
rehearse their ... The earlier informal troupes of travelling players were now 
replaced by ... who by law had to be authorized by a noble or royal patron, and 
would ... Stratford's Guildhall without doubt being witnessed by William's father, 
John... [DOC] [TLE] HAMLET - Shakespeare Festival St. Louis [PAR] His parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, a landed heiress. John 
was a glover ... company of traveling players called Lord Strange's Men, where 
he... [DOC] [TLE] English 378 Reserve Text: Intro to the Norton Shakespeare [PAR] who does not love Shakespeare has made, the rite implies, an incomplete 
adjustment not .... Illnesses that we now trace to vitamin deficiencies were 
rampant. ..... Quiney was elected bailiff of Stratford in September of that year but 
did not live to ...... there were organized companies of players traveling under 
noble patronage. [DOC] [TLE] Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England - Palgrave Connect [PAR] SBTRO Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office, Stratford- upon-Avon. ShS 
..... The players would travel under the name of their patron and were usually 
entitled to ...... equivalent.2 Players sometimes used or hired civic halls for self-
financed ...... with a local bailiff and were presented at the Maldon Court Sessions 
(see. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "William Shakespeare, a critical study" - Internet Archive [PAR] We can form but tentative conjectures as to the order in which his works were .... 
In 1561 he was Chamberlain, in 1565 Alderman, and finally, in 1568, High Bailiff. 
... of players came to Stratford in the year when Shake speare's father

Question: Traveling players were hired by Shakespeare's father, who was Stratford's Bailiff, what we would call this
Answer: Mayor