Dec 5, 2008
Article abstract: The leading playwright in the great flowering of Renaissance English drama, Shakespeare created some of the world’s most enduring literary and dramatic masterpieces.
William Shakespeare was descended from tenant farmers and landed gentry; one of his grandfathers, Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield, rented land from the other, Robert Arden of Wilmcote. Shakespeare’s father, John, moved to nearby Stratford-upon-Avon, became a prosperous shop owner (dealing in leather goods) and municipal officeholder, and married his...
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