“Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?” and others of similarly inventive cast.
Alexander Reykharthas quoted5 years ago
Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?” and others of similarly inventive cast.
a1anmhas quoted7 years ago
patently could do both
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John Shakespeare rose through a series of positions of authority in which an inability to read would have been a tiresome, if not insuperable, handicap
a1anmhas quoted7 years ago
reasonably consequential town
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when his father, John, was fined 1 shilling for keeping a dung heap in Henley Street in Stratford. This was a matter not just of civic fussiness but of real concern because of the town’s repeated plague outbreaks
a1anmhas quoted7 years ago
sumptuary laws weren’t actually much enforced
a1anmhas quoted7 years ago
unusual for felons to be disemboweled
a1anmhas quoted7 years ago
they were raised abruptly—and, for most people, crushingly
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their habit of being willfully disobedient to authority and dangerously outspoken