| Some Masters (and the associated Baylis family) were
known to have lived in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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| They had a butchers shop in Henley Street, near Shakespeare's
birth-place. |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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| Stratfod-upon-Avon is famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare
and the home of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. |
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| Shakespeare was caught poaching at nearby Charlecote
Park, where one of the Masters was the gamekeeper,
alas not until after Shakespeare's same time. |
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| One of the suggested reasons for Shakespeare leaving
Stratford in 1586 (for London where he largely wrote his
plays) was that he had got into difficulties by putting
mocking verses on Sir Thomas Lucy's gate at Charlecote
Park after Sir Thomas had prosecuted him for deer-poaching
in his park (the other reasons were the state of his marriage
to Anne Hathaway and the his father's
failure in business). Alternatively it is suggested
that persecution of the Arden family was the reason. |
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| He later returned to the town and bought one of the biggest houses
in the Town, "New Place", in 1597. He divided his latter
years between London (where he also had homes) and Stratford-upon-Avon.
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