Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
In Our Time: Culture
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Is Thatante a Good Writer?
He shapes the history that he's dealing with. He compresses, he elongates and he inserts scenes when he needs to emphasize certain points. There was no stdy. It would have been very uncomfortable if he had made rebellion look like a good idea. But i he's also dealing censorship. The things that they were told, they couldn't do to push it further. And we can see from the manuscript hand d writing in sir thomas moore is shakespeare,. then we know that that particular manuscript had actually been read by the master of the revels and scribbled on.
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