who are shakespeare's parents names?
John Shakespeare Mary Shakespeare
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 Shakespeare 's surname was hyphenated as " Shake @-@ speare " or " Shak @-@ spear " on the title pages of 15 of the 48 individual quarto ( or Q ) editions of Shakespeare 's plays ( 16 were published with the author unnamed ) and in two of the five editions of poetry , published before the First Folio . Of those 15 title pages with Shakespeare 's name hyphenated , 13 are on the title pages of just three plays , Richard II ( Q2 1598 , Q3 1598 , Q4 1608 , and Q5 1615 ) , Richard III ( Q2 1598 , Q3 1602 , Q4 1605 , Q5 1612 , and Q6 1622 ) , and Henry IV , Part 1 ( Q2 1599 , Q3 1604 , Q4 1608 , and Q5 1613 ) . The hyphen is also present in one cast list and in six literary allusions published between 1594 and 1623 . This hyphen use is construed to indicate a pseudonym by most anti @-@ Stratfordians , who argue that fictional descriptive names ( such as " Master Shoe @-@ tie " and " Sir Luckless Woo @-@ all " ) were often hyphenated in plays , and pseudonyms such as " Tom Tell @-@ truth " were also sometimes hyphenated . 

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 Shakespeare 's play is adapted from Holinshed 's Chronicles , a history of the British Isles written during the late sixteenth century . In Holinshed , Fleance escapes Macbeth and flees to Wales , where he fathers a son who later becomes the first hereditary steward to the King of Scotland . 

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 Shakespeare was named for his grandfather . Richard 's name was common among the Quineys : his paternal grandfather and an uncle were named Richard . 

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 Shakespeare 's character 's name is pronounced / tᵻˈteɪnjə / , but the moon is often pronounced / taɪˈteɪniə / , by analogy with the familiar chemical element titanium . The adjectival form , Titanian , is homonymous with that of Saturn 's moon Titan . The name Titania is ancient Greek in origin , meaning " Daughter of the Titans . " 

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 Nearly all academic Shakespeareans believe that the author referred to as " Shakespeare " was the same William Shakespeare who was born in Stratford @-@ upon @-@ Avon in 1564 and who died there in 1616 . He became an actor and shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain 's Men ( later the King 's Men ) , the playing company that owned the Globe Theatre , the Blackfriars Theatre , and exclusive rights to produce Shakespeare 's plays from 1594 to 1642 . Shakespeare was also allowed the use of the honorific " gentleman " after 1596 when his father was granted a coat of arms . 
