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Erik Uriegas
Ms, Sharp
English 4 Period 7
10-31-03
A Poet’s History
William Shakespeare was a very mysterious man. Most of the information about his life is unknown. Some information is lost and never to be found. His plays are continuously being performed today. William Shakespeare was not just a playwriter but also a poet and actor. All of these accomplishment without ever attending a college or university. His early life was at Stratford on Avon and he was educated at a free gramer school in Stratford. Treated well by his father and mother who was middle class. Grown to have marriages, kids, and become one of historys best play writers.
Stratford on Avon at a time of William Shakespeare’s birth was a village of about two thousand inhabitants. Stratford on Avon is about eighty miles away from London. William Shakespeares year of birth was 1564. He was baptized the twenty-sixed of April. William was the third child to be born. He had twin sisters who were elder but died at infancy. The name Shakespeare appears to have been common in the west midlands. William Shakespeare left his family about four years after his marriage to Anna Hathaway at the age of eighteen, and came to London for better family fortunes. At this time London had gone prosperous under the reign. Shakespeare hoped upward Stratford could have held little for him now that his father’s enterprises had faded. During the years William Shakespeare detached himself gradually from his London Associates (“William”, 3). Irving Robner quoted,”Shakespeare growth as a tragicdramastic growth in moral vision (“Bergeron”, 74). Shakespeare grandfather was a tenant farmer; his daughter’s husband was altered knighthood (“Kay”, 17). The Shakespeare family history is a textbook case of that upward social mobility that was so common in Renaissance England.
William Shakespeare’s education is known to be vague. There was a free grammar
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