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William Shakespeare was the third out of eight children born to the Shakespeares. Little is known about Shakespeare's childhood other than he went to the Stratford Grammar School and never proceeded on to Oxford or Cambridge.
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As the son of a prominent town official, William Shakespeare probably attended the Stratford grammar school, which provided an intensive education in Latin grammar and literature. There is no evidence that his formal education extended beyond this.
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John and Mary Shakespeare’s seventh child, Richard, was born 1574 and baptised on March 11, when William was 10 years old, Gilbert was 8, Joan was five and Anne was three providing the four brothers and sisters with another brother. Richard was probably named after his paternal grandfather who had died in 1561. Richard would have been only four years old by the time that the family's fortunes were in decline. In 1578 his elder brothers were removed from school to help with the business and it is therefore doubtful that brother Richard received much of an education. It is even possible that this brother of William Shakespeare could not even read or write, which would partly account for the fact that very little else is known about Richard. There are no records of any court proceedings involving Richard and he never married.
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