FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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No
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Yes
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Maybe
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Yes, but he didn´t finish the career
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Detailed explanation-1: -His education ended after grammar school, and Shakespeare did not attend university.
Detailed explanation-2: -There is no record of Shakespeare going to University. Only a few of Shakespeare’s contemporary playwrights attended University, including Christopher Marlowe who was at Cambridge. Ben Jonson, who prided himself on his learning, did not.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although boys normally attended grammar school until age 15 or 16, Shakespeare may have been forced to leave school as early as 1577, at age 13, because of his father’s financial difficulties. There is no record of Shakespeare attending university.
Detailed explanation-4: -So no, he did not attend university and it wasn’t expected of a playwright to have a higher education in that way.
Detailed explanation-5: -Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King’s New School in Stratford, a free school chartered in 1553, about a quarter-mile (400 m) from his home.