... sophisticated and wealthy world, opening doors for him and his writing. When William wrote plays, many of his plots were not original. He used Raphael Holinshed's work. Some of the play's he wrote are a Midsummers's Night's Dream and Love's Labor's Lost. By August 1596 William had become great and well known writer. By that time William Shakespeare was thirty-two years ... along with many other actors established a company. They called it "Lord Chamberlain's Players". The company was of the royal household which often performed for Queen, Elizabeth. All of William Shakespeare's play's f...

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... poets all went to grammar schools of this kind, though some went to universities at the age of 15 (Levi 29). William had the privilege of seeing his very first play when he was only four years old (Chute 11). William's father took him away from school during hard times when the family was in need of money, so that he ... had purchased a share in the recently formed acting company with which he was to remain for the rest of his working life 4 (Grose 10). He relied on boy actors to play the female roles because women did not act until after Charles II's Restoration in 1660 (Martin 72). Be...

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