What Did Shakespeare Do Before He Became a Writer?

The first records that mention Shakespeare as an actor and a playwright are from 1592, and many historians speculate that he may have either worked as an assistant schoolteacher or a horse assistant at London theaters before he began his career as a poet and playwright. Still, there are no known records of Shakespeare between 1585 and 1592, so it is impossible to know what he did prior to becoming a writer.