College of Arms | Tours of the UK

The College of Arms is the organisation that granted John Shakespeare (William’s father) a Coat-of-Arms, making them respectable. It was this respectability that helped advance Shakespeare’s social-climbing ambitions. But was Shakespeare the working-class genius we think he was? Or was Shakespeare, like some of his rivals, just another posh boy?

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