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Ian McKellen Reads A Passionate Speech By William Shakespear, Written In Defense Of Immigrants

Ian McKellen Reads A Passionate Speech By William Shakespear, Written In Defense Of Immigrants

by The Daily Eye Team January 30 2017, 5:32 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 37 secs

The identity of William Shakespeare has been a literary mystery for four hundred years, inspiring theory after theory, book after book. There has been, indeed, little biographical evidence to work with, though paleographer and “literary detective” Heather Wolfe has very recently filled in some critical gaps. It was long thought that Shakespeare’s will, in which he bequeaths to his wife his “second best bed,” was the only document in his hand, aside from a few signatures here and there. Since around the turn of the 20th century, however, scholars have come to agree that three pages of a manuscript in an Elizabethan play called Sir Thomas More contain Shakespeare’s handwriting.

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