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Shakespeare: The World as StageSo William Shakespeare was born into a household of quite a lot of importance locally. One of JohnБЂ™s duties as high bailiff was to approve payment from town funds for performances by visiting troupes of actors. Stratford in the 1570s became a regular stop for touring players, and it is reasonable to suppose that an impressionable young Will saw many plays as he grew up and possibly received some encouragement or made some contact that smoothed his entrance into the London theater later. He would at the very least have seen actors with whom he who would eventually become closely associated. For four hundred years this was about all that was known of John Shakespeare, but in the 1980s some discoveries at the Public Record Office showed that there was another, rather more dubious side to his character. БЂњIt appears that he hung out with some fairly shady fellows,БЂ«says David Thomas. Four times in the 1570s, John was prosecuted (or threatened with prosecution-the records are sometimes a touch unclear) for trading in wool and for money-lending, both highly illegal activities ...» |
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