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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. His father was a prosperous tradesman and occupied a number of important civic offices, but in the later 1570s his fortunes seem to have declined rapidly. In 1580 he was fined a considerable sum for some unknown offence and by 1592 he was failing to observe the legal requirement to attend church once a month for fear of being arrested for debt.
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© 1985 David Elloway
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Elloway, D. (1985). Life and Background. In: Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07387-0_1
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