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, 03:13, May 10, 2009→Shakespeare: interesting article
*Looking further, I found that Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, a glover and tanner who went on to deal in farm products and wool, and Mary Arden, daughter of a wealthy farm owner. In a brief search, I couldn't find anyone with a title mentioned in his ancestry, though apparently Mary's grandfather may have been "an aristocrat". [http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/index.html#parents] I don't know if Burke's Peerage goes back that far. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 23:07, 9 May 2009 (EDT)
*Looking further, I found that Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, a glover and tanner who went on to deal in farm products and wool, and Mary Arden, daughter of a wealthy farm owner. In a brief search, I couldn't find anyone with a title mentioned in his ancestry, though apparently Mary's grandfather may have been "an aristocrat". [http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/index.html#parents] I don't know if Burke's Peerage goes back that far. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 23:07, 9 May 2009 (EDT)
* There's a rather interesting article in the Catholic Encyclopedia from 1913 on the question of Shakespeare's religious beliefs.[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/The_Religion_of_Shakespeare] It makes the case that Shakespeare's parents most likely brought him up in a Catholic household, and brings up other arguments for or against his Catholicism. Not surprisingly, however, the article's conclusion is that Shakespeare's religious beliefs will most likely remain a mystery. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 23:13, 9 May 2009 (EDT)