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    How old was Shakespeare when he married?

    Question #128290. Asked by jeristep656. (Dec 09 12 3:47 PM)


    mandy2

    		Shakespeare was 18 years old when he married Anne Hathaway who was 26 or 27 years old. She was pregnant at the time with the couple's first child, causing some historians to describe it as a "shotgun wedding"

    Dec 09 12, 4:02 PM
    rossian

    		Here are some details about the wedding and marriage, which confirm that Shakespeare was only eighteen at the time and still officially a minor.

    http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-biography-marriage-wife-anne-hathaway.htm

    Dec 10 12, 3:54 AM

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