what was the name of william shakespeare's children?
Judith Quiney Susanna Hall Hamnet Shakespeare
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 Each of the plays relates to the tale of the mythological Oedipus , who killed his father and married his mother without knowledge that they were his parents . His family is fated to be doomed for three generations . 

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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 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 '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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 Adaptations of the play , not Shakespeare 's original , dominated the performance history of The Tempest from the English Restoration until the mid @-@ 19th century . All theatres were closed down by the puritan government during the Commonwealth . Upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 , two patent companies — the King 's Company and the Duke 's Company — were established , and the existing theatrical repertoire divided between them . Sir William Davenant 's Duke 's Company had the rights to perform The Tempest . In 1667 Davenant and John Dryden made heavy cuts and adapted it as The Tempest or , The Enchanted Island . They tried to appeal to upper @-@ class audiences by emphasising royalist political and social ideals : monarchy is the natural form of government ; patriarchal authority decisive in education and marriage ; and patrilineality preeminent in inheritance and ownership of property . They also added characters and plotlines : Miranda has a sister , named Dorinda ; and Caliban a sister , also named Sycorax . As a parallel to Shakespeare 's Miranda / Ferdinand plot , Prospero has a foster @-@ son , Hippolito , who has never set eyes on a woman . Hippolito was a popular breeches role , a man played by a woman , popular with Restoration theatre management for the opportunity to reveal actresses ' legs . Scholar Michael Dobson has described Enchanted Island as " the most frequently revived play of the entire Restoration " and as establishing the importance of enhanced and additional roles for women . 
