[nickcarraway]

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[SunkenCiv]

The A&E Biography on Shakespeare is definitely worth a look.

[SAJ]

Peter. Dan. Yawn.

That which we call an historical revisionist and a marginal comedian, by any other name would smell as bad.

One assumes it runs in the family. Bad luck on the family, of course.

[highball]

I have no problem with a fictionalized biography, so long as it's acknowledged as such.

He tells us, for example, that in the Elizabethan period “it was customary for men and women to have sexual congress almost fully clothed”. How does he know?

It's common knowledge, that's how he knows. I learned that in my Shakepeare classes. Don't remember much else from my Shakespeare classes, but there you have it.