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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: The Life Of William Shakespeare

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Berkeley, David Shelley
Affiliation: Professor Of English, Oklahoma State University

The Life Of William Shakespeare

Facts versus speculation.

Anyone who wishes to know where documented truth ends and where
speculation begins in Shakespearean scholarship and criticism first needs to
know the facts of Shakespeare's life. A medley of life records suggest, by
their lack of inwardness, how little is known of Shakespeare's ideology, his
beliefs and opinions.

William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, as "Gulielmus filius
Johannes ...

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