Although not preserved records of visiting Shakespeare probably was educated at the new royal school in Stratford, a free school, opened in 1553, the remote for about a quarter of a mile from his home.

Edward VI, the king, whose name was of the school, in the middle of the XVI century gave part of the money received after the dissolution of the monasteries to create a network of grammar schools and "dissemination of good literature ... throughout the kingdom," but initially the school was founded in the beginning of the XV century church city institution, the guild of the Holy Cross.

Since 1482 and prior to the transfer of England to Protestantism in the school worked Catholic priest. The school was free and open to all children in Stratford, and scientists assumed that the small Shakespeare visited her, although it did not survive any school records. School diplomas Elizabethan varied quality of teaching, but it was standantizirovano royal decree, and the school just had to give a strong education in Latin grammar and literature. Part of the training was staging plays Latin students to better understand the language. Not preserved data about getting Shakespeare higher education. 

At a time when Shakespeare probably always lived in Stratford, theater troupes visited the city at least 12 times, including two times speaking to officials, among whom was the father of Shakespeare, who, as the bailiff had to her performance troupe prolitsenzirovat .