William Shakespeare | What was Shakespeare's marriage like?

We have firm evidence that Shakespeare was married in late 1582 to Anne Hathaway, that he was eighteen years old at the time, while she was twenty-six years old. We also know that the first of their children, Susanna, was born six months after the marriage and was, therefore, conceived out of wedlock. In conjunction with the substantial age difference between Shakespeare and his mature bride, it is often suggested that the future playwright married Anne Hathaway because he had gotten her pregnant, that he was, in fact, forced into a marriage with this older woman. From here, the...

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