Throughout the years, William Shakespeare has influenced many things in our culture today from literature, to musicals, to movies. Due to his personal upbringing and overall lifestyle
Shakespeare was influenced by this and arguably became one of the greatest writers, or playwrights, that the world has ever seen. So the question is, what made William Shakespeare,
William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare was born in April, 1564 (Graham) in Stratford, United Kingdom to his parents, John and Mary Shakespeare. Neither John nor Mary Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s parents, named him, his name was instead selected by a godparent, someone trusted by the parents who could be of either financial or moral help to the child if needed, or he was instead
named
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It is speculated that Shakespeare took advantage of the traveling players and asked younger, boy actors what their lives were like in the play industry, which could have led to future inspiration for some of his works. It is often said that Shakespeare had thoughts of joining the younger traveling players since he felt as if he had a lot in common with them. Shakespeare’s father was seen as a prominent citizen in
Stratford and due to this Shakespeare was able to easily attend Stratford’s Grammar School for free, being that his father, John, was a part of the committee responsible for the upkeep of the school and for appointing the headmaster of the school (Morely). Prior to attending Stratford,
Shakespeare attended a “petty” school, also known as a school for infants from age five to six
(Morely). Due to his educated Elizabethan background Shakespeare was often called a linguistic prodigy (Potter 24). Stratford was seen as the wealthiest and most important institution prior to
Block 3 the reformation. Schools like Stratford were apart of The Tudor Educational Revolution which most beneficiaries were boys like Shakespeare who were meant to be groomed into Lawyers
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Despite such a heavy Latin based curriculum the school also required some English to be learned, for the purpose of writing letters, translating from Latin and reporting sermons (Potter 25). When Shakespeare was merely thirteen it is reported that his father, John, went bust for exacting interest on loans he had purposely extended. As a result of his father’s shortcomings, Shakespeare was forced to leave
Stratford and go to work at his father’s shop. Whilst working at the shop Shakespeare learned the skills of selling and book keeping, along with the arts of making gloves, belts, and purses in the workshop, and skinning animals (Callow). Shakespeare decided not to go to university in 1579 because it may have resulted in his family becoming significantly poor (Potter 48). Instead of going to university Shakespeare decided to enter a church and become a member.
Shakespeare got married near the end of 1582 at the young age of eighteen to, at the time
26, Anne Hathaway. Only six months later, Shakespeare and Anne’s first daughter was