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A History of the Globe Shakespeare
In order to understand the nature of the Globe, it is helpful to know more about the unlikely pair of men who created it. William George Clark and William Aldis Wright both came from non-elite backgrounds and died at the pinnacle of academic accomplishment, but they shared little in common beyond that and a love of Shakespeare.
In 1821, Clark was born a farmer’s son in Yorkshire, far from the commercial and academic power centers of nineteenth-century Great Britain. He was a promising student at his grammar and public schools, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1840. Four years later, he was named a fellow at the college, remaining at Trinity until 1873, when he left for health reasons (DNB, “Clark”).
He was ordained by the Church of England in 1853, but abandoned the clerical state in 1870, apparently also for reasons of health (Murphy, 184). His reputation was for classical scholarship, having won a prestigious award in that field as an undergraduate. Clark’s “constant facility and wit in classical composition were much admired” (DNB, “Clark”).
