ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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).

Detailed explanation-2: -During the late 1580s and early 1590s, Shakespeare left Stratford to seek fame and fortune in London.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s ‘lost years’ A seven-year gap in Shakespeare’s biography – between 1585 and 1592 – is another source of frustration to historians. At some point in this period, Shakespeare moved from Stratford-upon-Avon to London, where he emerges, in 1592, as a successful actor and playwright.