Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man
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Shakespeare - A Little Story From Shakespeare's Plays
The following year, in 16 o two, a student at middle temple, one of the law academies in london, wrote in his journal an anecdote that he presumably heard at some point about theatre actors. A lady comes up burbage says, i want you to come to my rooms and romance me in the person of richard the third,. But william, shakespeare gets there first and is at his game having sex with her, and tells burbage, william the conqueror came before richard the fourth. There is so much in this little story that resinates with sh Shakespeare's plays: The obsession with kings and kingship, the punning, the double meanings,
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