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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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The Scourge of Folly by John Davies

After that, there's a pause where we don't hear about shakespeare anywhere in written records until 16 11. In which year a strange little vers appears in a book of sort of epigrammatic poems called the scourge of folly. And it says, quote, some say, good will which i in sport do sing. Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in sport? Maybe that is alluding to sh Shakespeare playing the roles of kings on stage,. or the ghost in hamlet.

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