Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Rise of Shakespeare
After 17 37, at which point all plays began to be recorded when they were produced, about one fourth of all theatrical productions in england were of shakespeare. Critics couldn't help but appreciate and celeb this rising popularity of sh Shakespeare. There was now tourism to stratford, and specifically to new place. People began to seek out the places of shakespeare's birth and baptism and and his life course,. And it became popular to take clipping s off of trees that had been planted at new place as a kind of token of this connection to shakespeare.
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