Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 55

by Tucker Brooke

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LV. BURIAL OF GILBERT SHAKESPEARE (1612).

Stratford Burial Register.

1611 [ie. 1612] February 8 Gilbertus Shakspere, adolescens.

Note. This was almost certainly the poet’s brother, who had acted as his agent in the purchase of land from the Combes in 1602. (See no. XXXIV.) The identification has been doubted on the ground that the word adolescens is a strange one for a man of forty-five. A plausible explanation is offered by Mrs. Stopes, Shakespeare’s Environment, pp. 382 ff.