FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Oxford
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Cambridge
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London
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none
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -So no, he did not attend university and it wasn’t expected of a playwright to have a higher education in that way. We know that Shakespeare’s contemporary, his exact contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, did have a university education.
Detailed explanation-4: -William Shakespeare attended school at King Edward VIs Grammar School in Stratford Upon Avon from the age of 7 until the age of 14.