How did shakespeare achieve an elevated social status? he was born into gentry. he was knighted by elizabeth for his excellent plays. he was given a coat of arms. he didn't, but his contemporaries considered him "noble."

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.

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