 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pàgines
...visitor 'that this Shakespear was formerly in this town bound apprentice to a butcher; but that he run from his master to London, and there was received into the playhouse as a serviture, and by this means had an opportunity to be what he afterwards proved'.24 Although this story... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pàgines
...told him that 'Shakespeare was formerly in this town bound apprentice to a butcher, but that he run from his master to London, and there was received into the playhouse as a servitor, and by this means had an opportunity to be what he afterwards proved'. The tale that The... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pàgines
...one of the oldest inhabitants that Shakespeare had been apprenticed to a butcher but had 'run away from his master to London, and there was received into the playhouse as a servitor'. This implies that he lived in Stratford continuously between leaving school and going to... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pàgines
...recalled how Shakespeare "was formerly in this town bound apprentice to a butcher; but that he run from his master to London, and there was received into the playhouse." Stitching together different traditions, this recollection puts Shakespeare on the road, possessed... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1898 - 576 pàgines
...Shakespeare was formerly in this town bound appren* Mr. William Castle, parish clerk and sexton. tice to a butcher, but that he ran from his master to London, and there was received into the playhouse as a servitor. . . . He was the best of his family. . Not one, for fear of the curse abovesaid, dare touch... | |
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The clerk that showed me this church is above eighty years old ; he says that this Shakespeare was formerly in this town bound apprentice to a butcher, but that he run from his master to London, and there was received into the playhouse as a servitor,... 
