Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice: With Introduction and Notes
His father was a well-to - do tradesman and his mother was Mary Arden, who had a small estate in land. Their son William was sent to the grammar school of Stratford, where he received a fair education, although hardly of such a kind as his plays would lead us to suppose. He may have learned a little law from his uncle, who was a lawyer in the town, but we know next to nothing about his youthful days.
Shortly after his marriage to Anne Hathaway he is said to have been reprimanded for poaching on the estate of Sir Thomas Lucy, an episode which he after ward immortalized, and this fact, with his father's loss of fortune, induced him to set out for London to make his own way in life.
Possibly he may have seen some of the plays and pageants given at Kenilworth Castle during his boyhood, and cherished a secret liking for the stage. At all events, he soon found friends among the London actors and before long became an actor himself and the proprietor of a theatre in Blackfriars.
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