ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -His father was fined for making a dunghill outside his house. (A dunghill is the polite way of describing what we would flush down the toilet!) 5. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Detailed explanation-2: -It has long been known that John Shakespeare was accused of illegal money lending and wool dealing by professional informers. Until now it has been assumed that he settled those cases out of court by about 1573, when William was less than ten years old.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who was William Shakespeare’s father? John Shakespeare was the father of William Shakespeare. John was probably born in the 1520s, the son of successful farmer Richard Shakespeare from Snitterfield (a village around two miles from Stratford-upon-Avon).

Detailed explanation-4: -It was said that he fled to London in order to escape punishment. John Aubrey wrote in 1681 that William Shakespeare ‘had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country’ (which might well refer to Stratford, since Aubrey was writing from a London perspective).