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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 3: "The Maiden's Organ"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Sonnets and Shakespeare's Life and Career

The first appearance of any of shakespeare's sonnets in print actually was in 15 99. They appeared in a piratical, unauthorized short book called the passionate pilgrim. It is generally agreed that those two sonnets were authentically written by william sh Shakespeare. But i'm going to put that aside for now and just look at what we can know and understand from them. And then thirdly, i're going to talk about what light the sonnets can shed on shakespeare's other works,. particularly his playsht how can we understand the characters and the events in the plays? Then lastly, i will give a thank you message for my patrons, and encourage you, if

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