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Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies

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The Sonnets Are Plugging Into a Much Bigger Picture of the Human Condition

We don't know too much about him and I don't think profuring biographical readings of the Bard Illuminates him critics tried to do that in regards to his sexuality. We know that he lost a son Hamnet and I have a feeling that that probably upset him. There's a lot more in the sonnets than Just sexual identity. The sonnets are Plugging into a much bigger picture of the human Condition and his plays most certainly are so AC Bradley is not going to touch upon the development of his genius or genuineness.

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