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- So the educational and future successes of Shakespeare depended on his parents affording to send him to get an education. Many others were not so fortunate. Shakespeare himself missed out on a full education as we shall later discover.
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Shakespeare himself missed out on a full education as we shall later discover. Shakespeare’s school is still a grammar school today, and is attended by boys who have passed their 11+ exams. They accept the very top percentage of boys who have done well in their exams.
Then, by the age of 28, he’s appearing in records in London as a writer of plays, as a playwright. 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.
Education for William Shakespeare consisted of a five full days and a half-day on Thursday for 40 to 44 weeks of the year - 2,000 hours in school per year (more than double the current school hours) Lessons were based on constant repetition of subjects - so would have been quite boring for lively students! There were also continuous examinations!
The quote confirms for many that William Shakespeare lacked the formal education expected for a writer of his stature. He did not attend a University, and it is doubtful that he even completed grammar school. Still, this lack of formal learning may actually be what helped to create the writer he was to become.
Shakespeare’s school years are not well documented, but there is plenty of information about school-life during Shakespeare’s time. William started at the King Edward VI Grammar School (called The King’s New School) when he was seven. The grammar schools covered the country and most boys with the same background as William attended them.
Apr 9, 2017 · This essay, “Shakespeare, Oxford and the Grammar School Question,” (THE OXFORDIAN 2008), takes on the difficult matters of Shakespeare’s education, the nature of Elizabethan grammar schools and how Oxford, assuming he was the playwright, seems to have had first-hand experience of them. Acknowledgments.
Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. This critical biography of Shakespeare takes the playwright from cradle to grave, paying primary attention to his literary and theatrical milieu. The chapters “follow a chronological sequence,” each focusing on a handful of years in the playwright’s life.
