Nicholas Rowe, the first person to write a biography of Shakespeare, almost 100 years after his death, claimed that he had to leave Stratford because he was caught poaching. The details of the story as told by Rowe do not add up, so it is generally believed that it is mere rumour.
Yes. William Shakespeare was born in the lovely little market town of Stratford -on-Avon in the centre of England. He moved 150 miles to work and live in London. After he retired he moved back to Stratford.
To find work. He was twenty years old, with a wife and three children and no skills that were marketable in Stratford. London offered better prospects.
He grew up in Stratford and moved to London.
That is true.
Stratford, then London, then Stratford. In his early married life, when his children were born, he must have been living in Stratford still, but at some point, we do not exactly know when, he moved to London to be an actor and only visited Stratford occasionally. After he retired, only a few years before his death, he returned to Stratford again.
Yes. William Shakespeare was born in the lovely little market town of Stratford -on-Avon in the centre of England. He moved 150 miles to work and live in London. After he retired he moved back to Stratford.
When Shakespeare retired he left London and returned to his home in Stratford.
To find work. He was twenty years old, with a wife and three children and no skills that were marketable in Stratford. London offered better prospects.
He was actually born in London, Ontario Canada, but then he moved to Stratford when he was little
He grew up in Stratford and moved to London.
That is true.
Stratford, then London, then Stratford. In his early married life, when his children were born, he must have been living in Stratford still, but at some point, we do not exactly know when, he moved to London to be an actor and only visited Stratford occasionally. After he retired, only a few years before his death, he returned to Stratford again.
He is from London, Ontario but then he moved to Stratford, Ontario for a singing competition and stayed there until he moved to Atlanta, Giorgia. Ontario (Canada) Giorgia (U.S.A.)
He had two homes: Stratford, which was his home town and where all of his family lived, and London, which was where he worked and where all his business associates were. His primary residence was in Stratford until he was in his mid-twenties, and then he moved to London to work in the theatre business. He stayed in boarding houses and the like until he was 49, at which time he retired and moved back to Stratford until his death three years later. However, even when he lived in London, he was also concerned with his Stratford home, buying an expensive new house for his family when he was 34. And the reverse was true--on the eve of retiring, he bought a new house in London.
Answer William Shakespeare bought a house called "New Place" in Stratford-Upon-Avon and he moved there when he retired in 1613.
He lived in London while his wife and family lived in Stratford. Presumably he came and visited them from time to time. After about 25 years of this, he retired back to Stratford and moved in with his wife again.
Sigmund Freud moved to London permanently in 1938, after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Austria. He spent the last year of his life in London, where he continued his work and writing.