The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-06
SKa K kMSPE4ARE'S CENT BINARY RECALLS TREATMENT or
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 E1aborates prepar atfona are being made hath h England and America Tor tn l1eproper obserTance of the ter centenary Eof Shak espeare's death, on April 2s Of next year. Tn this. con- nectfon it is interesting to recall that today is the anniversary 1.-the death cf Mrs Anne Shakespeare, wife and widow of the inam ortal bard, who breathed her last at Stratford-upon- Avon, August S. 1928, having survived her husband byi more than seven
 There is reason to believe that Snakespeare.s domestic life was not altogether very happy. and that his entrance into the married state was not altogether voluntary on his part. Shakespeare was barely 19 years old when he took Anue. Hathaway as his lawful welded spouse The bride. eight years his senior, was the daugh- ter of c y9el1-to-do yoeman at the neighborSng hamlet of Shottery. It IS probable. that the sturdy 5yoeEnan was marriage between the Stratford boy and the mature Anne, who had reach ed an age which in those days brought upon her the reprOach of being an Told maid = The father doubtless had good reason for hsB indignation. for within six montAE of the marriage Anne shakespeaFe presented her boy husband with a daughter. Subse- tuentIy she gave biHth to twins, a boy anu eaT girl. and happy lucky Will Shakespeare was brought to 2 realization that, for the head of a family, life Is very serious propo- sition.
 Besides being tIae anniversary of Anne ShakespAare's death, today marks the passing. in A16S7, of srare Zen Jonsony' dqamatist and poet ana Shakeapearess friend. who took part in the debauch which caused the IdeAtIF of the bard of~Avon- In the ldiary Of Rev John Ward, vicar of tStratford, we are told that Shakes pease Drayton, and Ben Jonson had s merry meeting and it seems drank toe hard, for Shakespeare died Of i1essr thus con ltracted
 The circumstances surrot1ndIne tlaefr narriages and the disparity in their ages. probably made Snakes pea-e aald his wife poorly mated pair. and not altogether congenial Tzfs much is suggested by Shakes Ipeare's will in which his wifes is men ftlo lonea only in a few interlined words apparently ndded as an afterthought 1m The body of tlaa will beauests were made to Ssl akespeares tive daughters Judith and Susannas the former be cdKainas 1zrs Quincy and the 1attes 14z& Hsl4x Ito his sister, Joan Hart and her three sons, and to a consider at1e number of friends and acquairt'
 
 In the body of the will there was no mention whatever of Mrs. Shakes peare: but in an interlined bequest ht wrote; T give unto my wife my sec. oud<best bed with the furniture
 Tt would seem from this that wheE Shakespeare wrote his will he forgo that he had a wife, although it woulf seem that the mention of his daugh ter l lied Its to hi 1nenazgsss hut tEiat her existence wa after Wss-d brought to his attenti CT and the Inter1ined. bequest was added By law. however. Mrs Shakespear, inherited third of her husband's es tate, So she was not left desd tute Anne Shakespeare was buried il Stratford Chureh Her graveston bears this inscriptions
 Heres lyeth< inferred the body Q Anne, wife of William Shak espeare who dep. ted tllis Life the 9th day 2 Avgv. 1923, being Of the age of s s3 Yeares ss