Shakespeare received a classical education growing up in England. He read Latin and Greek classics in the original languages. His family was not rich but he went to a good school.
The school he went to had a copy of Ovid's Metamorphosis which fueled his imagination. Shakespeare wrote the plays that we attribute to him. There is not a lot known about his early life because he was in trouble with the law for killing a deer on a wealthy neighbor's property so he left home and went to London and kept a low profile until he emerged as a playwright.
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