Early life William Shakespeare
john shakespeare s house, believed shakespeare s birthplace, in stratford-upon-avon
although no attendance records period survive, biographers agree shakespeare educated @ king s new school in stratford, free school chartered in 1553, quarter-mile (400 m) home. grammar schools varied in quality during elizabethan era, grammar school curricula largely similar: basic latin text standardised royal decree, , school have provided intensive education in grammar based upon latin classical authors.
at age of 18, shakespeare married 26-year-old anne hathaway. consistory court of diocese of worcester issued marriage licence on 27 november 1582. next day, 2 of hathaway s neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing no lawful claims impeded marriage. ceremony may have been arranged in haste since worcester chancellor allowed marriage banns read once instead of usual 3 times, , 6 months after marriage anne gave birth daughter, susanna, baptised 26 may 1583. twins, son hamnet , daughter judith, followed 2 years later , baptised 2 february 1585. hamnet died of unknown causes @ age of 11 , buried 11 august 1596.
shakespeare s coat of arms, appears on rough draft of application grant coat-of-arms john shakespeare. features spear pun on family name.
after birth of twins, shakespeare left few historical traces until mentioned part of london theatre scene in 1592. exception appearance of name in complaints bill of law case before queen s bench court @ westminster dated michaelmas term 1588 , 9 october 1589. scholars refer years between 1585 , 1592 shakespeare s lost years . biographers attempting account period have reported many apocryphal stories. nicholas rowe, shakespeare s first biographer, recounted stratford legend shakespeare fled town london escape prosecution deer poaching in estate of local squire thomas lucy. shakespeare supposed have taken revenge on lucy writing scurrilous ballad him. 18th-century story has shakespeare starting theatrical career minding horses of theatre patrons in london. john aubrey reported shakespeare had been country schoolmaster. 20th-century scholars have suggested shakespeare may have been employed schoolmaster alexander hoghton of lancashire, catholic landowner named william shakeshafte in will. little evidence substantiates such stories other hearsay collected after death, , shakeshafte common name in lancashire area.
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