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Episode #5 - Did Shakespeare Write The Plays?

Our Fake History

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Shakespeare - The Most Impossible Tale in History

The writer who calls himself Shakespeare was a rustic from Stratford upon Avon. He is the most improbable person ever to have lived, and his story is the most implausible tale in history. Would such a man not have taught his own family to read and write rather than keeping them gaping illiterates? More scholars each year swell the ranks of us who say that whoever Shakespeare was he was not this pedestrian merchant from Warwickshire.

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