What did Shakespeare’s teachers think of him? Did they find him to be a brilliant student? A mediocre one? Or a dullard, “Creeping like snail unwillingly to school”? Unfortunately, we shall probably never know. Any records of his schooling are long lost; we assume that he attended the King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon, […]

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