Основы теории английского языка. Шевченко В.Д. - 33 стр.

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problems: in 1582 he undertook a legal process designed to restrain four fellow

citizens from attacking him. Attendance at church was required by law, but in

1592 the Stratford authorities listed nine absentees whom they suspected kept

away from church for fear of being arrested for debt. The hapless John

Shakespeare was among them.

The precise cause of John Shakespeare’s problems is not known. But

times were hard in the late sixteenth century. The assumption behind the

managed economy of Elizabethan England was that life went on much the

same from one generation to the next. Their ideal was not the modern one of

progress, but rather of stasis. Historical realty was very different – as John

Shakespeare found out the hard way, and as his son discovered to his profit

when he recouped the family fortunes in the newly-established professional

theatre.

(From The Life & Times of William Shakespeare by James Brown)