The correct answer is C) he was given a coat of arms.
Shakespeare achieved an elevated social status because he was given a coat of arms.
The coat of arms was a heraldic design on a shield that identified a person pr a family. In England and Scottland, the coat of arms was a legal property that could be transmitted to other generations.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English writer that wrote 38 plays such as Hamlet, Othello, A Midsummer's Night Dream, King Lear, McBeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Henry V. Without doubt, he is the most important writer of England.
