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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Poems Are Documents - What Is the Simplest Explanation?

Historians always have to make inferences and speculate based on limited and problematic evidence. When it comes to the sonnets, one could say, well, they're works of art, so therefore it's literary conceit. The second possibility is all an elaborate literary conceit built around fictitious, invented characters.

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