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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Shakespeare - The First Shakespeare Festival
There was a terrible lack of sources with information about shakespeare. Nobody, in all their searchings around london, and stratford was able to find a single manuscript by william sh Shakespeare. The romantic poets like coleridge and keats sawShakespeare as a kind of transcendent genius. They see him as a natural genius with no need for training. He was not a learned man. He was a kind of natural genius who sprung up from the people and even like from the soil of england. And he also organized a jubilee celebration at stratford in sevent 69. You can see it as kind of the first shakespeare festival.
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