Every opportunity the Bard of Avon performed for royalty was a "PhD" for him. Queen Elizabeth's palaces were adorned with worldwide gifts (stuffed ostriches, Oriental oddities, etc) and was a museum of learning for a man whose farthest travels were probably the borders of Wales or Scotland. The Immortal Bard took extensive notes on those visits.
As a DU-er pointed, the saloons and pubs were immersed with sailors. Shakespeare synthesized their worldwide tales with recently translated works from writers such as Plutarch, as well as the exotic items he witnessed at the palaces.
One of the reasons for organizing Shakespeare's works into a folio was to save the exact language. Unscrupulous publishers would attend the plays at the Globe and scribble down the lines, making mistakes along the way.
The greatest writer at the time of William Shakespeare's ascendancy was a university-educated playwright named Christopher Marlowe. But the Immortal Bard, who did not attend college, would soon eclipse Marlowe. Gentle Will would maintain a rivalry with warrior-playwright Ben Jonson after Marlowe's untimely and mysterious demise.
Like Shakespeare, Ludwig van Beethoven and President Abraham Lincoln also did not attend college. Genius is genius.
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