Redigerer Judith Quiney (avsnitt)

==Fødsel og tidlig liv==
Judith Shakespeare var datteren til William Shakespeare og Anne Hathaway. Hun var den yngre søsteren til Susanna og tvillingsøsteren til [[Hamnet Shakespeare|Hamnet]].<ref name=EKC_baptism>{{cite book
  | last = Chambers
  | first = Edmund Kerchever
  | authorlink = Edmund Kerchever Chambers
  | title = William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems
  | url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.182554
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1930
  | pages = I. p. 18
  | quote = A daughter Susanna was baptized on 26 May 1583, and followed by twins, Hamnet and Judith, on 2 February 1585. Guesses at godparents are idle where common names, such as Shakespeare's own, are concerned. But those of the twins, which are unusual, point to Hamnet or Hamlet Sadler, a baker of Stratford, and his wife Judith. }}</ref><ref name=SS_baptism>{{cite book
  | last = Schoenbaum
  | first = Samuel
  | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum
  | title = William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
  | url = https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea00scho
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1977
  | pages = p. 94
  | quote = […] the twins were christened […] on 2 February 1585. Richard Barton of Coventry […] officiated[.] }}</ref> Dåpen hennes på 2. februar 1585 ble registrert av [[prest]]en Richard Barton fra Coventry, i [[sogn]]eregisteret for [[Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon]].<ref name=EKC_baptism /><ref name=SS_baptism /> Tvillingene fikk navn etter et ektepar, Hamnet og Judith Sadler,<ref name=EKC_baptism /> som var venner av foreldrene. Hamnet Sadler var en baker i Stratford.

Judith Shakespeare var antagelig analfabet.<ref>Chambrun, Clara Longworth. ''Shakespeare, actor-poet,: As seen by his associates, explained by himself and remembered by the succeeding generation'' D. Appleton and Co (1927). pg. 223. ASIN B000858JBE</ref> I 1611 ble hun bedt om å bevitne en pant for salget av et hus som tilhørte hennes svigerinne, Elizabeth Quiney, og Elizabeths sønn Adrian. Judith signerte to ganger med et merke istedenfor navnet sitt.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Schoenbaum
  | first = Samuel
  | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum
  | title = Shakespeare's Lives
  | url = https://archive.org/details/shakespeareslive00scho
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1970
  | oclc = 94533
  | pages = p.28
  | quote = In 1611 she twice made her mark as witness to a deed for the sale of a house belonging to Elizabeth Quiney and her eldest son Adrian. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
  | last = Schoenbaum
  | first = Samuel
  | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum
  | title = William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
  | url = https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea00scho
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1977
  | pages = p. 318
  | quote = [Judith] was even less of a scholar, if we may judge from the fact that when in 1611 she witnessed a deed of Elizabeth Quiney and her son Adrian, she twice signed by mark. }}</ref>