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“Literacy and moral education were regarded as the very foundation of the state or commonwealth” (81).
This is about the grammar schools that were established using monastic funds (from the dissolution of the monasteries) in Edward VI’s reign. Shakespeare attended one.
— Sep 08, 2026 03:54PM
This is about the grammar schools that were established using monastic funds (from the dissolution of the monasteries) in Edward VI’s reign. Shakespeare attended one.
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Elizabethan geopolitics--how much of it did Shakespeare use in his plays? Surprisingly interesting but also sooo complex and new to me!
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I love that there was a vogue in the 1590s for sonneteering. 😂
— Sep 20, 2026 02:48PM
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Fascinating this section about Shakespeare as businessman compared to his fellow playwrights. He was in the top 3 most financially successful because the Lord Chamberlain’s Men was a shared business enterprise, he seems to have been frugal himself, and he made shrewd investments. Reminds me of how concerned Trollope was with how much his novels made. He has a forebear in Shakespeare! Writers gotta live!
— Sep 17, 2026 03:16PM