e other hand the upper school taught logic and rhetoric (Rowse 39). Rhetoric taught Shakespeare different styles of writing (Rowse 39).History, as well, was taught to Shakespeare in school. History was read for moralizing purposes only. Sallust and Caesar were normally educated throughout various schools. Shakespeare knew Livy’s story about Caesar and about Lucrece. The two most important sources of Shakespeare’s education are the Bible and the Prayer Book (Rowse 40-41).Some of Shakespeare’s boyhood expedition’s consisted of sports such as the sport of archery. Archery was a main sport in Stratford (Rowse 50). Shakespeare would talk about some sports and hobbies, during his boyhood, in his poetry: In my schooldays, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the self-same way with more advised watch,To find the other forth and by adventuring both,I oft found both (Rowse 50).In 1582 Shakespeare married ‘Anne Whateley’ of Temple, Crafton. Shakespeare and Anne had a daughter, Susanna, and twins, Hammet and Judith. All of the children were baptized in Stratford church (Ludowyk 3). After Shakespeare got married he Caldwell 3decided to move to London. Shakespeare, like other men, was drawn to London by the prospect of the fortune to be made there. Shakespeare may have gotten in trouble in Stratford so going to London would be his best bet (Ludowyk 6). Later contacts say that Shakespeare grew to become a “fugitive” once he left Stratford:Let us pass over the moment of Shakespeare’s arrival in London in 1585, a fugitive of 21 years of age, and contemplate him after the first anxieties had been overcome, and he had found employment at the theatres. Here we are in the region of fact, not fancy. A young man from a provincial town engaged as prompter’s assistant at a theatre, his duties probablyinvolving the copying of plays for the use of the actors; what were his surrou...
