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Is Shakespeare Illiterate?

The theory is that he might have actually been illiterate because his handwriting was so bad. There are at least 20 different ways that Shakespeare spelled his own name, which adds to the idea that maybe he was illiterate. Maybe he was just dyslexic. Yeah, there are so many better conclusions to come to other than he did not write the works. Can I give a prediction? Go for it. He went, he watched a lot of plays. It's pretty close to correct. But we'll talk about that anyway.

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