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The county of Warwick was called the heart of England as long ago as the time of Shakespeare. Indeed, it was his friend, Michael Drayton, born the year before himself, who first called it so. In his _Poly-Olbion_ (1613) Drayton refers to his native county as "That shire which...
We do not know the precise date of William Shakespeare's birth. That of his baptism is recorded in the parish register at Stratford as the 26th of April, 1564. It was a common p...
6. PART IThe county of Warwick was called the heart of England as long ago as the time of Shakespeare. Indeed, it was his friend, Michael Drayton, born the year before himself, who first...
7. PART II.The house in Henley Street in which William Shakespeare was probably born and spent his early years has undergone many changes; but, as carefully restored in recent years and re...
9. PART IV.Young William may have found life at the Henley Street house and at the Grammar School rather dull, but there was no lack of diversion and recreation out of doors. Household com...
8. PART III.The Stratford Grammar School, as we have already seen (page 38 above), was an ancient institution in Shakespeare's day, having been originally founded in the first half of the 1...
5. PART V.--HOLIDAYS, FESTIVALS, FAIRS, ETC. 1651. PART I.--HIS NATIVE TOWN AND NEIGHBORHOOD 12. PART II.--HIS HOME LIFE 473. PART III.--AT SCHOOL 934. PART IV.--GAMES AND SPORTS 119