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From the bust at Stratford-on-Avon

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Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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form of field sport save one—although a Warwickshire man, he wasnot such a fool as to fish in the Avon. Tradition is probably quiteright in making him an occasional, if not an inveterate, poacher; andhis departure for London in 1585 may very well have been in conse-quence of too near an acquaintance with the keepers of Sir Thomas
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREFrom the Bust at Stratford-on-Avon Face p. 90 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 91 Lucy of Charlecote. But his unrivalled knowledge of the humanheart and his divine power of expressing the same in immortal versewas a gift which he held directly from Almighty God. In his nineteenth year Shakespeare married Ann Hathawa),the daughter of a small farmer, eight years older than himself, andhis elder daughter Susanna was born within six months of themarriage. Twins, Hamnet and Judith, followed in 1585, and in thatyear the future poet disappeared from his home for eleven years.It seems probable that he went to seek his fortune in London,perhaps in the train of a company of players who may have beenvisiting Stratford. He is first known to have been in London in1587, and almost certainly began, perhaps in some very humblecapacity, an apprenticeship to the stage. But in spite of the ac-quaintance with low and even wild life which some of his playsindicate, in spite of the exceedingly bad re

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