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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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Shakespeare's Poems

There are basically one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of these from his lifetime. And i'm going to describe each one, and just mayme comment a little bit on what it says. The first one ih've already mentioned is from 15 92, when the short, sort of humorous pamphlet, a grotsworth of wit was published. This pamphlet was posthumously attributed to the playwright robert green, but this is probably not true. It was some lesser or less talented writer who probably penned it.

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