Britain remembers William Shakespeare
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"We have some 800 thousand visitors a year, thoroughly half of them are international visitors who go all the way to see Shakespeare's birthplace, legacy to the world is amazing," said Nic Fulcher, creative director of Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust.
It was at this spot that Shakespeare was born, where he was brought up, and where he fathered three children with his wife. Although he didn't become famous until he moved to London, where he worked first as an actor and then a writer, in his later years he returned to Stratford Upon Avon, and it was in this town that he died in 1616. The town remains indelibly etched with his memory, including the place where he studied.
As the brightest pupil in the class, according to legend, Shakespeare used to sit in this very spot. Here, he could be close at hand to help the teacher.
In this classroom, Shakespeare studied Latin, Greek and Rhetoric with 40 other students attending the school. He was lucky to be able to study at all, as the fees at the grammar school were expensive and few children received an education at the time. It was his father's position as Mayor of the town that allowed his sons to attend the school for free. These days, there are many more students at the school, treading in Shakespeare's footsteps.
"It's an honour, there's nothing else to be said for the fact, it's really an honour, the fact that we get to sit in the same room as sp, it feeds your ideas, when you come in here, the first day of year 7, you are struck in awe by the surrounding, and the fact that that was one of the greatest writers in English history studied at the same school," said Matthew Newman, student at King Edward VI school.
Be it his plays, artworks in his image, or the young people he continues to inspire to this day, 450 years on Shakespeare is still living in the minds and hearts of people not just in the UK, but around the globe. Will he still be such an omnipresent figure in another 450 years? Only time will tell.
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