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Events on Friday 25 March 1616 1
1616Shakespeare's willShakespeare signs his revised will on 25 March 1616. He leaves New Place and the bulk of his estate to his daughter Susanna; Judith receives a cash settlement; his sister Joan gets the Henley Street house for life. To his wife Anne he leaves "my second-best bed with the furniture." Scholars have debated this bequest ever since — insult or intimate gesture? The will names no books, no manuscripts. It is the will of a property owner, not a writer.