Explore "A Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare" by George Madden Martin on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
But baby years pass. When Will Shakespeare is six, he hears that he is to go to school. But not to nod over a hornbook at the petty school -- not John Shakespeare's son! Little Will Shakespeare is entered at King's New College, which is a grammar-school.
But, dear me! Dear me! It was a dreary place and irksome. At first small Will sat among his kind awed. When Schoolmaster breathed Will breathed, but when Schoolmaster glanced frowningly up from under overhanging brows like penthouse roofs, then the heart of Will Shakespeare quaked within him.