Originally, Shakespeare would have first seen plays enacted in his own little town of Stratford on Avon, as his father would licence travelling actors to perform in an inn yard, or some such other place, and young William would go along with his parents, to watch the performance. Later, as he learned Latin, in school, he would be infused wih the heroes of Ovid's Metamorphoses, his Latin crib. He would also hire a horse, at Christmas time, when he was working in his father's shop, and travel the 18 miles to Coventry, there to witness the Miracle Plays, a cycle of 48 plays, depicting the life of Mary, mother of Christ. When he eventually began playwrighting, he wrote for the company of actors resident at the Theatre, in Shoreditch, built by James Burbage, father of Richard, who called it "Theatre", after the Greek Theatro,"I Show". Scholars and historians who read Shakespeare, are still not sure of his first written work, although most now turn to his tetralogy of KIng Henry V!.
