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A 4 page paper which examines the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man behind the literary legend. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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quest to answer this question, Professor William Rubinstein observed, "William Shakespeare may well have been the greatest man England has ever produced, but he is also one of the most
elusive" (28). Practically everything historians have uncovered about Shakespeares life appears to be inconsistent with the legacy left by a literary genius without peer (Rubinstein 28). This is
largely what fuels the persistent but unfounded contention that the Bard never existed, but was simply a pseudonym for another sixteenth-century writer or group of writers.
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England on April 23, 1564, William Shakespeares humble origins were hardly those of a dramatist that would later entertain Queen Elizabeth I and James
I (The Shakespeare File 8). The son of illiterate parents, John Shakespeare was a blue-collar tradesman while his wife Mary hailed from a more prosperous family in Warwickshire (Quennell
17). This unlikely coupling was apparently not a happy match for either husband or wife for as John Shakespeare achieved modest mercantile success in various ventures Mary was embarrassed
by her husbands lack of social amenities and resentful of the lifestyle she relinquished by marrying a man beneath her class (Quennell 17-18). It is probable that their sensitive
son was aware of his parents marital discord, but losing himself in books was never an option. Stratford-upon-Avon was, after all, "a small provincial town in which lived no
more than a handful of educated men" (Rubinstein 28). No academic record exists for Shakespeare, and all that is known is that his formal education ended when he was
thirteen (Rubinstein 28). However, biographer John Aubrey wrote during the seventeenth century, "He understood Latine pretty well" (Honan 60). Astonishingly, there is no evidence that William Shakespeare ever
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