Hamlet Paper

William Shakespeare is believed to be born on April 23 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, England to John and Mary Shakespeare. As Catholics customs during those times, William Shakespeare was baptized at a very young age on April 26, 1564 at the parish church of Stratford upon Avon. Baby William Shakespeare had been able to survive a plague that killed one out of eight people of the hometown. William Shakespeare was the third child of eight children with relatives living nearby in Snitterfield and Stratford. In the early 1560’s William Shakespeare’s father John Shakespeare was expanding his involvement in his community rising in the ranks to alderman then bailiff, which was the highest paid job in town. A young William Shakespeare was opened up to literature and inspiration for his future, but was also was inspired by the fall of his father’s success as well. Young Shakespeare was educated at first “petty school” were he learned to read, but as the status of his father rose, William Shakespeare and his brother would be allowed to go to school for free at Stratford's grammar school to learn to write and read. Later William Shakespeare would attend the King's New School: Stratford's splendid grammar school, where he would learn Latin to the point he was in Latin plays, also learned Christian ethics, rhetoric, classical literature, and even some Greek as shown in his plays. When Shakespeare left school at the age of fifteen not going to university, he began work at a young age. A young William Shakespeare had multiple jobs before settling down with Anne Hathaway and beginning to write. William Shakespeare was at some part of his life: an actor, tutor, servant, teacher, and due to not going to university William Shakespeare lacked the ...

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... Hamlet as “weak”. Hamlet lives in this world of injustice, but his actions show that he is an unjust man himself, after killing Polonius and his friend Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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