8-3Hathaway

__ Who married this genius? Answer prepared by Za'Novia McKinley __ There are many unanswered questions in Shakespeare’s and Anne Hathaway’s marriage. Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare‘s marriage was sudden and very unexpected. William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s first child, Susanna, was born the following may after they were married. It was evident that Anne was several months pregnant at the time of the wedding. This would be sufficient explanation for the apparently frantic haste to obtain a special license to marry in November. The law dictated that the bride and groom must marry in one the other of their home parishes. Since both parties resided within the boundaries of the Stratford parish, this meant that their marriage should have taken place in the Stratford parish Church. It is, therefore, intriguing that the license stipulated that they were to be permitted to marry in a different parish- Temple Grafton, about five miles west of Stratford. Why was a different parish requested and why the Parish Temple of Grafton in particular?