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November 29, 1635
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November 26, 1635
John Hall, Susanna Hall’s husband, was buried on November 26, 1635, according to the Holy Trinity Church parish register. Next to the entry, an “X” added by a later hand highlights its significance.
1635
In 1635 Robert Benefield, Heilard Swanston, and Thomas Pollard petitioned the Lord Chamberlain for a redistribution of the profits and proceedings of the Globe playhouse.
February 14, 1636
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November 29, 1636
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1636- 1637
The 1636–7 Revels Office book records that the royal court witnessed eighteen plays over the Christmas season, from November 17 to February 21, including “the moore of Venice” (December 8), “hamlet” (January 24), and “the tragedie of Cesar” (January
1637
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May 12, 1637
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May 27, 1639
John Hall, who in 1607 had married Shakespeare’s elder daughter Susanna, died in November 1635.
ca. 1620- 1650
A copy of the third edition of William Camden’s Britannia (1590) now in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, carries an inscription in ink on the lower margin of page 452:
et Gulielmo Shakespear Roscio plané nostro
