... . The 1570's however, did not prove as profitable and John lost much of his accumulated fortune. Due to his family's status in the community Young William most likely attended the King Edward VI School, a free grammar school in Stratford. If this assumption is true, this school would have given William a basic knowledge of written and spoken Latin as well as an ... well. He continued in this capacity for almost twenty years. The group averaged two plays per year and Burbage played the starring roles such as Richard III, Hamlet, Othello and Lear. With Shakespeare's success in the theatre ...

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... circumstantial facts. In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and poems infer certain ... ...

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