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Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies

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Shakespeare's Second Period

If you ever try to do a chronological reading of Shakespeare I would implore you to persevere and understand that the Shakespeare who wrote those places not the Shakespeare whowrote King Lear and Macbeth You have good stuff coming and waiting for you. There's Titus andronicus which Harold Bloom calls a Marlovian send up Christopher Marlow a huge influence upon Shakespeare Was still writing. Many critics want to disown this from Shakespeare's over they wish he hadn't written this one. They also wish he hadn’t written the Mary wives of Windsor Which he butchers full staff although it's not really full staff. It's it's an imposter This is his apprenticeship period where

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