Episode #5 - Did Shakespeare Write The Plays?
Our Fake History
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The Case Against Shakespeare
Tradition reports that the author was a tradesman from provincial Warwickshire who was baptized Gillamous Schachspur. Can anyone truly think this scenario likely? Is this a process that defies everything we know about the development of literary creativity and skill? Are we seriously to believe that a man of no education who wrote no letters nor received any from anyone they must have known he couldn't read?
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