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430 In Shakespeare's Shadow (with Michael Blanding)

The History of Literature

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Thomas North's Travels Through France and Italy

There's a journal, for example, that shows North's travels through France and Italy. There are some links with that and some of Shakespeare's writings is that something that McCarthy found or was that something that he found the significance of. And this was sort of a travel log that that North had written on the way to Italy in 1555 when he was very young. It was a journey to reconcile Queen Mary with the pope.

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