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John Shakespeare Alderman Snitterfield Mary Arden Stratford-upon-Avon Saint George's Day

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He was likely educated at the King's New School in Stratford, where he would have received a classical education in Latin and grammar similar to other grammar schools at the time, despite limited surviving records of his school attendance.

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John Shakespeare Alderman Snitterfield Mary Arden Stratford-upon-Avon Saint George's Day

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He was likely educated at the King's New School in Stratford, where he would have received a classical education in Latin and grammar similar to other grammar schools at the time, despite limited surviving records of his school attendance.

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Early life

William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover
originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer.[8]
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of
birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day.[9] This
date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholar's mistake, has proved appealing to
biographers, because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616.[10] He was the third child of eight and
the eldest surviving son.[11]
Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare
was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford,[12] a free school chartered in 1553,
[13]
about a quarter-mile (400 m) from his home. Grammar schools varied in quality during the
Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basic Latin text was
standardised by royal decree,[14] and the school would have provided an intensive education in
grammar based upon Latin classical authors.[15]

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