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Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies

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Shakespeare's Tragic Period

You'll know that this is a period where he wrote nothing but tragedies. Shakespeare undoubtedly Suffered we have no biography autobiography. We have no diary of his we don't have I with why witness accounts. Some biographers will say that the tragic period stemmed from the death of his son hamner This happens many years before his tragic period. There's discrepancy some will say all Macbeth came before King Lear King Lear became before Macbeth They were practically being written simultaneously as far as I'm concerned He wrote in the span of one yearSome of the greatest masterpieces that we have ever seen That humankind has ever been treated to by a Fellow.

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