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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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The Sonnets Tell Us Something Important About Shakespeare

The sonnets are unusual, and it makes most sense to see them as works written for private audiences that shakespeare knew personally. They do potentially tell us something important about sh Shakespeare, about who he was and the kind of person that he was. So i'm going to leave till later, rather to sum up what we've seen based on the evidence we have,. The original evidence from the time is the most historically important material.

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