| Did Shakespeare have a middle name? |
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The baptismal record reads "Gulielmus, filius Johannes Shakspere". All the entries are in Latin, and what this means in English is "William, son of John Shakspere". So no, he didn't have a middle name. Shakespeare's family name, like many names of the period, is spelled in several different ways, and Shakspere is the way it appears in most Stratford records. |
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