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          Full text of "The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan " See other formats..

          No student of history, reflecting on the long range of human activity in the past, is likely to estimate very highly his own significance in the cosmos.

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        3. He told few stories except to reveal character, to bring out some point, or to complement something else.
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          5. William Shakespeare Biography

          SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616), the supreme English poet and playwright, universally recognized as the greatest of all dramatists.

          A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts.

          His day of birth is traditionally held to be April 23; it is known he was baptized on April 24, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. The third of eight children, he was the eldest son of John Shakespeare (d.

          Born in Madrid, Spain to two hard-working military parents, William and Elizabeth Schoen.

          1601), a locally prominent merchant, and Mary Arden (d. 1608), daughter of a Roman Catholic member of the landed gentry. He was probably educated at the local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare ordinarily would have been apprenticed to his father's shop so that he could learn and eventually take over the business, but according to one account he was apprenticed to a butcher because of reverses in his father's financial situation.

          According to another account, he became a schoo