How did Shakespeare get interested in theatre?

Answer 1

Since Shakespeare left no diaries, letters or similar papers which show what his private thoughts were like, we have very little idea. However we do know that he went to the trouble and expense to secure a coat of arms for his father, something his father had started but not followed up on. This entitled Shakespeare to call himself "gent." in the rigid and highly stratified social system of the time. He was a social climber; social status was obviously important to him.

Answer 2

All questions which have to do with Shakespeare's thoughts and opinions are pretty much guesswork. There is not much evidence for it.

You might say, "Shakespeare was always fascinated with the power yet weakness of love, even as a child. He was amazed with what it could change a person into and what it could make a person do. It was Love that created betrayal and envy and therefore it was love that created the power of Shakespeare's mind." and it might be true or it might be totally false.

Shakespeare was more than usually concerned with social status, which is why he pushed through his request for a Grant of Arms (which would give him the status of a gentleman)

Answer 3

Actually, if you read through or watch all of his plays, and by this I mean ALL of them, you will find that there is no particular thing which Shakespeare was fascinated with. Certain themes and tropes show up a number of times, but there are always a number of plays which have nothing to do with those things. His plays reflect current dramatic taste over a period of twenty-five years or so at a time of rapid change in those tastes. Sometimes he nods to those fashions and sometimes he satirizes them. Sometimes he portrays members of a class of people as awful monsters and sometimes as laughable fools and sometimes as noble and virtuous people.

Answer 4

We have almost no evidence about Shakespeare's personal life and none about his life in any way between 1585 and 1592. In 1592 Robert Greene wrote in a pamphlet about an "upstart crow" who was starting to write in blank verse. A "crow" was an actor, which suggests that Shakespeare started as an actor and then surprised everybody (well, Greene anyway) by also being able to write. Who knows why he decided to get into acting?

Answer 5

He was interested in Literature and drama and writing

Answer 6

Money and social status seem likely candidates. These are things he tried very hard to acquire in his spare time.