Shakespeare, age seven, must try harder

Nobody pictures Shakespeare as a child, or as somebody's son. Yet he was seven at some point, in somebody's English class, handing in his work to a teacher who wrote must try harder on it.

His father had to deal with him at home, too. Picture William Shakespeare being sent to bed with an order to put the pencil down.

Then add the parent's last complaint: stop speaking like that, because it's confusing everybody.