The Archive · 1926

KNOWN YOUTH

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Shuntetretme a" Sethor Gray, Free mi bridge. Cambridge Universi The blank period of Shakespeare's youth' can only be filled in with material which is largely confectural. The ordinarily accepted tradition is that Shakespeare, a provincial youth, son of a penniless father, educated solely at a country school, and lacking assistance from friends or patrons, made his way to London and, at the age of 29, leapt into the foremost place among, poets of a time of first-class poetry, and emerged under the distinguished Datronage of one of the greatest peers in' England.

Briefly, Mr. Gray's theory is that when Sir Henry Goodere, of Poles-worth, came to Stratford in 1570-1 one of four arbitrators inal xi A MASTER AND IIS CLASS OF Bors AND Gums Fro "A Cuarren int

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