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COUNCILJEDBURGH GRAMMAR SCHOOLHICH STREETJEDBURGHTD86DQ  \nPublished in association with The Basic Skills Agency  \nHodder &Stoughton  \nAcknowledgements  \nCover:Portrait of Shakespeare by Hader afer Chandos (Photo AKG).  \nllustrations:Mike Bell.  \nOrders:please contact Bookpoint Lid,39 Milton Park,Abingdon,Oxon OX144TD.Telephone:(44  \n01235400414,Fax:(44)01235400454.Lines are open rom 9.00-6.00,Monday to Soturday,with a  \n24 hour message answering service.Email address:orders@bookpoint.co.uk  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this title is available from The British Library  \nISBN0340742712  \nFirst published 1999  \nImpression number 10987654321Year200420032002200120001999  \nCopyright ◎1999 Brandon Robshaw and Rochelle Scholar  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,electronic or mechanical,including photocopy,recording,or any information storage andretrieval system,without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the CopyrightLicensing Agency Limited.Further details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction)may beobtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited,of 90 Tottenham Court Road,London WIP 9HE.  \nTypeset by Fakenham Photosetting Lrd,Fakenham,Norfolk.  \nPrinted in Great Britain for Hodder &Stoughton Educational,a division of Hodder Headline Plc,338Euston Road,London NW13BH by Redwood Books,Trowbridge,Wiltshire  \nContents  \nPage  \n1 London2 Early Days3 The Theatre64 The Plague11  \n3  \n5 Success15  \n6 Macbeth19  \n7 Last Years23  \n8 Will's Words26Key Dates28  \n1 London  \nLondon,1587.  \nWill Shakespeare gazed in wonder.He had never seen anything like it.  \nEverywhere was crowded and noisy.Traders called out,selling their wares.  \nChildren ran barefoot in the streets.Ladies in fine robes of red,blue and green  \nand gentlemen with swordsat their sidesrode by.  \nWill looked down.  \nHe saw rats running along the gutters.The streets were narrow and dirty.People threw filth and rubbishout of the windows.  \nWill looked up.  \nHe saw the spires of churchesglinting in the sun.  \nTall ships with white sailssailed up the River Thames.London Bridge was crowdedwith shops and houses.Heads of criminalswere stuck on top of the bridge gates.  \nWill Shakespeare was 23 years old.He came from the townof Stratford-upon-Avon.Stratford was a small town-about 1,500 people lived there.  \nLondon was very different.  \n100,000 people lived there.  \nIt was full of life and excitement.  \nWill decided he liked it.  \nHe decided to stay.  \n# 2 Early Days\n\nWilliam Shakespeare was bornon 23 April 1564.  \nHis father was a glovemaker.His mother,Mary Arden,  \nhad some land and money of her own.They weren't rich,but they were quite comfortable.  \nStratford was a small market town,surrounded by green fields.Will was sent  \nto Stratford Grammar Schoolwhen he was seven.  \nHe had to learn Latin there.  \nThe school day was 11 hours longand he had to go six days a week.  \nWill hated it.  \nA long time later,in one of his plays,he wrote of a schoolboy'creeping like snailunwillingly to school'.  \nWhen Will was 12,his father got into debt.The glove businesswas not doing well.  \nHe could no longer affordto keep Will at school.Will was taken from schooland went to work for his father,making gloves.That was all the education Will had.  \nWhen Will was 18,he got marriedto Ann Hathaway.  \nShe was the daughter of a local farmer.She was eight years older than him.They probably had to get marriedbecause she was pregnant.The baby,Susanna,was born six months after the wedding.","cbCaidTi08qFCOyO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidTi08qFCOyO","pdf",2223650,36,"English","# Contents\n## 1 London\n## 2 Early Days\n## 3 The Theatre\n## 4 The Plague\n## 5 Success\n## 6 Macbeth\n## 7 Last Years\n## 8 Will's Words\n## Key Dates","[{\"question\":\"What does the book describe about London when 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