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Mourning and Melancholia

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The Upstart Crow Review

There's a great british television series called upstart crow that stars david mitchell as shakespeare. It starts to get into this thing where robert green is trying to destroy sh Shakespeare, but he can't in the present because the queen likes him,. so he resolves to destroy him in the future. One of the other things the show does is it d mystifies shakespeare and makes like, he says things like 'the pen is mightier than the sword' And then he has a friend who says, you didn't come up with that, mister shakespeare. Didn't i?

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