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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Shakespeare's Life

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

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Schuettinger, Robert
Affiliation: Earhart Fellow, Oxford University

Shakespeare's Life

Contrary to popular assumptions, we know a fair number of external facts
about Shakespeare's life. We know enough to be sure that the theories that
Bacon or Marlowe or someone else wrote the plays are false. William
Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon certainly wrote most of the plays attributed
to him. We do not know intimate personal details of Shakespeare's private
life, but we know more about him than we know about most Elizabethan literary
men. We ...

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