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Could Shakespeare Have Been A Woman?

WORDS Posted: May 10, 2019 1:32 pm

Had anyone ever proposed that the creator of those extraordinary women might be a woman? Each of the male possibilities requires an elaborate theory to explain his use of another’s name. None of the candidates has succeeded in dethroning the man from Stratford. Yet a simple reason would explain a playwright’s need for a pseudonym in Elizabethan England: being female. – The Atlantic

WORDS Published: 05.09.19

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