
Ep 20 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
Hardcore Literature
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Is Shakespeare?
There are four personas, there are four personalities speaking. It's predominantly Marlowe, in my opinion. We can actually see around the time Shakespeare started writing the Sonnets, that Shakespeare was shackled by Marlowe's influence. And one of the most compelling things about the Sonnets is just how much we get a sense that we're coming close to Shakespeare and who he might be but he's always holding us at a distance.
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