William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . this kindof education in the schools, but he oftener missesit. He is always supremely fortunate if he getsit at all. Shakespeare received it from severalsources; one of them being the love of the dramain the town in which he was born, access to itsrecords of every sort, and acquaintanceship withthe custodians of its traditions and the practitionersof its art. But he was by no means lacking in educationalopportunities of a formal kind. The GrammarSchool on Church Street, adjoining the GuildChapel and across Chapel Lane from the site ofthe poets la
William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . this kindof education in the schools, but he oftener missesit. He is always supremely fortunate if he getsit at all. Shakespeare received it from severalsources; one of them being the love of the dramain the town in which he was born, access to itsrecords of every sort, and acquaintanceship withthe custodians of its traditions and the practitionersof its art. But he was by no means lacking in educationalopportunities of a formal kind. The GrammarSchool on Church Street, adjoining the GuildChapel and across Chapel Lane from the site ofthe poets later home, one of the oldest and most BIRTH AND BREEDING 43 picturesque buildings now standing in Stratford,was founded at the close of the fifteenth was part of an older religious foundation, ofwhich the Chapel still remains, and which onceincluded a hospital. After passing through manyvicissitudes, the school was reconstituted in thetime of Edward VI. The Chapel was used in con-nection with it, and, if tradition is to be accepted,. LATIN RUUM, GRAMMAR SCHOOL, STRATFORD. was occasionally employed for school was built about the middle of the thirteenthcentury, and is a characteristic bit of the Englandwhich Shakespeare saw. The low, square towermust have been one of the most familiar landmarksof Stratford in his eyes. He saw it when he came,a schoolboy, from his fathers house in HenleyStreet, and turned into High Street; and from hisown home at New Place he must have looked at 44 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE it from all his southern windows. The interiorof the Chapel has suffered many things at thehands of iconoclasts and restorers, but remainssubstantially as Shakespeare knew it. The lowceilings and old furnishings of the Grammar School,blackened with time, make one aware, like themuch initialed and defaced forms in the olderrooms at Eton, that education in England has along history. In Shakespeares time the Renaissance influencewas at its height, and the schools
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