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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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William Shakespeare - A Memoir of the Dead Writer

William shakespeare continues to elude us in many ways. No other personal documents relating to the man himself have ever been apart from that will and testament. For several years, it seems sh Shakespeare was simply a moderately successful, moderately admired, dead writer. But clues as to his growin fame and notoriety began to appear a few years later. In 16 21, a memorial to shakespeare was installed in the holy trinity church in stratford. The inscription readsq, stay passenger. Why goest thou by so fast? Read, if thou canst whom envious death hath plad within this monument, shakespeare, with whom quick nature died,. whose name doth deck this tomb

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