FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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His father’s troubles may have forced him to withdraw William from school.
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He made poor grades and could not get accepted.
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He became rich in the merchant trade.
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He was disgusted with higher education.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Shakespeare probably left school at the age of 14 or 15. Shakespeare’s plays reveal a detailed knowledge of the curriculum taught in such schools which were geared to teaching pupils Latin, both spoken and written.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -There’s a number of other insults that get leveled at Shakespeare in the few sentences that Greene turns out. He accuses him of plagiarism, and he accuses him of bombast, of copying Christopher Marlowe’s style. We all know Marlowe as the author of Dr. Faustus, of Tamburlaine.