Richard Shakespeare Richard Shakespeare Richard Shakespeare (1490 – before 10 February 1561) was a husbandman of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, north-northeast of Stratford-upon-Avon, the father of John Shakespeare and the grandfather of William Shakespeare. He was most likely born around the Rowington/Wroxall area, about to the north in Warwickshire. He was the son of John Shakespeare (1460–1521), and the grandson of Thomas Shakespeare (1430–1511), his mother was Joan Shakespeare. Sometime before 1529, he removed to Snitterfield, where he was a tenant farmer until his death on land owned by Robert Arden, the father of Mary Arden, who married John, the poet's father. Richard Shakespeare
Imogen (given name) purposeful misspelling of the name Innogen, itself a possible common Celtic name meaning "maiden" or "girl". Innogen was known as the name of a legendary British queen and was supposedly wife to King Brutus and mother of Locrinus, Albanactus and Camber. It is possible that Shakespeare may well have written "Innogen", and it was accidentally printed as "Imogen" by mistake, thereafter becoming an accepted form of the name. Alternatively, Shakespeare may have purposely altered the spelling himself, thus coining a new name in the process. The form "Innogen" is rare. Shakespeare used the name Innogen for a ghost character in