How Did Shakespeare Change Over Time

Before Shakespeare was born, England experienced many big changes in the way religion was practiced. When Shakespeare wrote plays under the reign of Elizabeth they were about war and succession. King Henry VIII split with the Catholic Church after the Pope refused to annul his marriage. He seized the church’s land and wealth, and destroyed England's monasteries. Catholics were often an object of mockery in English Renaissance drama. Years later, when Shakespeare was alive, Queen Elizabeth was considered a cultural icon. Queen Elizabeth’s influence loomed large in Shakespeare’s plays. She consistently refused to marry, and instead, she devoted herself to a single life and to virginity. As a devoted patron of the theater, she often invited Shakespeare’s
The grammar school during that time was different from grammar school now because he first learned how to read and write in English and then progressed to the alphabet and learned how to read religious texts like Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer. After doing the basics, he learned to decompose and reassemble arguments and to graduate he would need to write orations. Shakespeare’s education was focused only on writing. He would have been sent to grammar school at the age of 7 and was taught everything from social studies to science. He would have received a Latin education and mastered the basics. To learn Latin, Shakespeare would read and write by copying sentences, and in school, he learned through the repetition of model sentences and maxims. After mastering these, he would have moved onto reciting arguments and writing speeches. He also had great access to many books and gained a lot from it and in class, they would have the constant dialogue between English and Latin. London, where Shakespeare lived, was the kind of place where a person could hear different dialects of English spoken, and it seems like Shakespeare had an attentive