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The quality and content of Shakespeare's works depict the author of being from the upper class. There are several reasons for this assumption. The first reason is that the author writes as if he is remote from commoners, which is shown from his apparent misunderstanding and changing opinion of the lower class. At time, the author praises and respects the servant's work, at other times he is humored and alarmed by them when they are depicted as clowns and as being inferior. This unfamiliarity with the lower class would prove the author to be an aristocrat. The instances where he writes about the royal court with distaste come not from a man apart from royalty, but from a man who knew it all too well (56). His eloquent style and intellectual writing are written for the upper class, and almost positively by someone of the upper class. .
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In contradiction, the theory that the author of Shakespeare's works was a mysterious man that almost nothing was known about, the author's traits are specific and precise. So precise, in fact, that it is difficult to find a man that can fit this persona. .
William Shakspere (1564-1616).
William Shakspere was born in Stratford on Avon in 1564, to a glove-maker and his wife. His home had no literary atmosphere and no books. Shakspere's father was illiterate and signed his name by marking a cross. As a youth Shakspere worked as a butcher. There is no record of a William Shakspere attending Stratford grammar school, possibly because the school's records haven't survived. If William Shakspere did attend school, he would have been taken out at approximately age 13, when his father ran into trouble with money. This man's educational background definitely does not correspond with the knowledge that the author of Shakespeare's works needed to have (Bethel 48).
At age 18, William Shakspere married Anne Hathaway, who also could not write. Within three years they had three children.
