Shakespeare’s Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman

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BBC FOUR (UK)

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Feb/12/2015

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Michael Wood takes a look at the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Mary Arden was born during the reign of Henry VIII and was the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer. She married into a new life in the rising Tudor middle class in Stratford­ upon­ Avon. She ended up having eight children and ends up being rescued from a life of poverty by her successful eldest son, William Shakespeare. (Source: BBC)

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