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 - What Do We Learn From Them?
If you look at biographies and literary studies of shakespeare, they tend to be really bloated with a lot of this kind of excess material. It obscures the sort of through line of sh Shakespeare's actual life and actions that we can reconstruct from surviving documents. So i'm going to do right now something that really any historian ought to do, which is just go back and list out what are the documents that tell us something about shakespeare himself personally,. What do we learn from them? This is very rarely done. Write just laying out, delineating what are the direct, original documents - putting away the anecdotes and the stories that were told decades later after his death. And i'm
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