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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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Shakespeare's Relationship With His Wife

Oca: It seems likely that he was pressured or forced into marrying her. There is no explicit reference to his relationship with her at any point in their life other than their marriage and the christening of their children. Oca beyond this especially, it becomes more and more tenuous to try to speculate about shakespeare's life based on really thin reeds of connection.

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