William Shakespeare 's education would have started at home. His mother, Mary Arden , would have told him fables and fairy tales during his early youth.
Mary was certainly literate. The kinds of stories Mary told him are referred to much later in Shakespeare's plays. His home education would also have included reading the bible.
In addition to education at home, Petty School followed up to the age of seven. Previously to that, in the Catholic time, people had pretty much thought that the only person who should interpret the Bible was the priest in Church.
So, given that freedom to interpret and read the Bible at home, and the Bible becoming published in English instead of Latin meant that many more people were able to read and did read, and that skill became much more common within society.
REID : Liz mentioned there girls learning in the home, but, of course, boys would have learnt there to. We know that Shakespeare lived at home on Henley Street with his parents, Mary and John, and his siblings. So what sort of education would we expect him to have received from his parents there? So we can imagine Shakespeare and his siblings sitting around, reading the Bible, then being quizzed on the Bible, particularly by John Shakespeare but also, by Mary Shakespeare as well. This is something that both parents had an investment in and that would have obviously kick-started his imagination, got him thinking about stories and the way that narrative works.
These sorts of stories were also depicted in decorative arts, so you would have been able to see them represented as well in the home, and the home of this sort of social level. REID : So if Shakespeare was learning in the home from his parents, does that mean they were educated people too? What do we know about their level of literacy and education? So whether his wife helped him with that early on in their relationship who knows but, these people, Mary and John Shakespeare, they are of a certain level of society and there are expectations about certainly the ability to read that comes with that status.
CHOUHAN : Shakespeare did not attend a university, you needed to be of significant, or at least substantial, wealth to go to university and we know that Shakespeare when he reached the university age after he left grammar school, rather than going off to further his study, he stayed in Stratford and got married and started a family, after which he travelled off and went to London.
Then there were other playwrights who at least attended, if not completed, a university education. The exterior of Shakespeare's school. The interior of Shakespeare's school. Another aspect of his education that would have been useful for his play-writing career was ethopoeia , or impersonation. Activity: This is something you can do at home with your family. Pick a historical figure or a character from literature, and think about part of their life or a scene they are in.
Then create your own dramatic interpretation of that scene. You can do this as a quick improv based on what you know already, or you can do some in depth research to create your scene! Uses In Plays. But Shakespeare did reference his grammar school education extensively. Some playwrights at the time, like Christopher Marlowe, did attend university, but other contemporaries like Ben Jonson did not. Shakespeare must have been a voracious reader, because he based his plays on a variety of popular writings from the time.
For example, Romeo and Juliet was based on an epic poem, and Hamlet was based on a history of a character called Amleth written around Sometimes Shakespeare would pick topics that he thought would appeal to those in political power. There is even a suggestion that King James traced his ancestry back to Banquo.
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