The real Shakespeare
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At that time, it was a sign of wealth to, " waste money" teaching daughters. That's how it became trendy. It then became a requirement for marriage, so the trend stayed. With a different reason.
Despite Shakespeare eventually getting a noble title by purchasing it, he was still a working man. So essentially, a man who abandons his family (but still financially supports them at some level) wouldn't necessarily educate his daughters unless they were going to marry up. And at the time they would be educated, when they were young, Shakespeare had not made his fortune yet. We have an idea that things were tight, with this troupe at least, because of lawsuit records.