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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

William Shakespeare was born at start ford on Avon on April 1564 far more is known about his life than is generally realised  but most of our information comes from parish records and various legal documents which throw more light on his family affairs and business dealings than on the circumstances which led him to writes his great works. He was the son of a leading tradesman pf star ford prominent in civic affairs and it is very likely though not certain that he received his education at the town grammar school there are parish records of his marriage to Anne Hathaway and the baptisms of his children but none which explain why he left start ford for London or how he came to enter the theatre from his period of obscurity in the records he emerges in the early 1590's as an important young playwright and poet and a member of the leading company of actors in 1598 Francis Meres a lawyer wrote of him as Britain's greatest dramatist excelling in every type of drama and poetry. Fortunately meres gave a list of twelve plays that he had written up to date a list of great help to scholars. It is difficult to date Shakeseare's plays because his company was reluctant to have his plays printed lest they should then be performed by rival companies. Only seventeen of his plays were published in his lifetime the reminder appearing in 1623 in a complete edition of his plays commonly known as the first folio. His company was called the lord chamberlain's company from about 1594 and the kings men from the accession of king james i in 1603. With burbage the greatest actor of the time and Shakespeare among the principal shareholders it is no wonder that the company prospered.

chapter 2

CARRIES'S WAR
Mighty have warned me then mightn't you miss fazackerly said. Not unkindly she was one of the kindest teachers in the school but carrie wanted to cry suddenly. If she had been nick she would have cried or at least put on a hurt face. Being carrie she started crossly out of the carriage window at the big mountain on the fair side of the valley. It was brown and purple on the top and green lower down; streaked with silver trickles of water and dotted withe sheep.
Sheep and mountains. Oh! it'll be such fun their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station. Living in the country instead of the stuffy old city. You'll love it you see if you don't as if hitler had arranged this old war for their benefit just so that carrie and nick could be sent away in a train with gas masks slung over their shoulders and their names on cards round their necks. Labelled like parcels caroline wendy willow and nicholas peter willow only with no address to be sent to. None of them not even the teacher knew where they were going. 

chapter 2

CARRIE'S WAR
NINA BAWDEN

He threw up all over miss fazackerley's skirt. He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling, jolting little train for the last lap of their journey but the sudden whistle had finished him.
Such a noise it seemed to split the sky open.
Enough to frighten the dead miss fazackerley's said mopping her skirt and nick face with her handkerchief. He lay back limp as a rag and let her do it the way he always let people do things for him not lifting a finger. Poor lamb miss fazakerley's said but carrie looked stern.
It's all his own fault. He's been stuffing his face ever since we left London. Greedy dog. Dustbin.
He had not only eaten his own packed lunch sandwiches and cold sausages and bananas but most of carrie's as well.  She had let him have it to comfort him because he minded leaving home and their mother more than she did.Or had looked as if he minded more. She thought now that it was just one of his act put on to get sympathy. Sympathy and chocolate he had all her chocolate too! i knew he'd be sick she said smugly.....