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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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's poems, which include the collection of sonnets and the narrative poems venus and adonis and the rape of lucrece were somewhat popular when they were first printed. They were obscure through most of the 16 hundreds after sh Shakespeare's death. But probably we can guess that another reason why he was drawn to macbeth more than shakespeare's other plays is that it is so formally tight writesThe plot line works like clockwork. Its short. Its his shortest tragedy. So we can see how the tastes of the time really made it difficult for Shakespears' work.
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