In his early manhood, apparently between 1586 and 1588, Shakspere left Stratford to seek his acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling in London. As to the circumstances, there is reasonable plausibility in the later acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling that he had joined in poaching raids on the deer-park of Sir Thomas Lucy, a acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling country gentleman, and found it desirable to get beyond the bounds of that gentleman's acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling. It is also likely enough that Shakspere had been fascinated by the performances of acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling dramatic companies at Stratford and by the Earl of Leicester's costly acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling of Queen Elizabeth in 1575 at the castle of Kenilworth, not many miles away. At any rate, in London he acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling soon secured mechanical employment in a theatrical company, acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling the one then known as Lord Leicester's company, with which, in that case, he was always thereafter acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling. His energy and interest must soon have won him the opportunity to show his acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling as actor and also reviser and collaborator in play-writing, then as independent author; and after the acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling few years of slow progress his rise was rapid. He became one of the acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling members, later one of the chief shareholders, of the company, and evidently enjoyed a acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling reputation as a playwright and a good, though not a great, acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling. This was both at Court and in the London dramatic circle. Of his personal acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling only the most fragmentary record has been preserved, through occasional mentions in miscellaneous documents, but it is acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling that his rich nature was partly appreciated and thoroughly loved by acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling associates. His business talent was marked and before the end of his dramatic acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling he seems to have been receiving as manager, shareholder, playwright and actor, a yearly income acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling to $25,000 in money of the present time. He early began to devote attention acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling paying the debts of his father, who lived until 1601, and acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling the fortunes of his family in Stratford. The death of his only son, Hamnet, in 1596, acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling have been a severe blow to him, but he obtained from the Heralds' College the acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling of a family coat of arms, which secured the position of the family as acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling; in 1597 he purchased New Place, the largest house in Stratford; and later on he acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling other large property rights there. How often he may have visited Stratford in the twenty-five years of his acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling in London we have no information; but however enjoyable London life and the acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling of the writers at the 'Mermaid' Tavern may have been to him, he probably always looked acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling to ending his life as the chief country gentleman of his acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling village. There he retired about 1610 or 1612, and there he died prematurely in 1616, just as he was acquiredactorauthoritycareercompletingconnectedentertainmentequivalentevidentevidentlyfirstfortuneforwardgentlefolksgranthisleadinglifemustnativeneighboringpresumablyrestoringskillsocietysubstantialtotraditiontraveling his fifty-second year.
(adapted from "A History of English Literature" by Robert Huntington Fletcher)