In the Winter's Tale, his Sicilia and Bohemia, have no geographical reality. (Bohemia has a desert and a Sea Coast) As usual, Shakespeare just takes that from source material, and he doesn't really care about geographical or historical accuracy.
My favorite is the clock chiming in Julius Caeser.
More disgusting herpephobia.
"The big thing in his favour is this extraordinary visit to Italy," said Rylance last year. "You would expect a playwright who set 14 of 37 plays in Italy to have been there, and the knowledge is exact."
In Measure for Measure - which takes place in German-speaking Vienna - Shakespeare writes a play whose principal characters have Italianate names.
In A Winter's Tale characters are shipwrecked off the coast of Bohemia - which is a landlocked region of the modern-day Czech Republic.
In Two Gentlemen of Verona characters sail from landlocked Verona to landlocked Milan.
Rylance may perform these plays, but he either hasn't read them or he failed geography.
It’s amusing that the “intellectuals” always come up with a crazy theories to explain away people without their “education” or “breeding” out performing them.
Much Ado about Nothing
Sir Henry Neville was the "Winston Churchill" of Shakespeare's day.He wrote in a notebook references to the deposition of Richard II and notes toward directions for the coronation scene in Henry VIII - a play produced eleven years after the date of these preliminary notes. Also, there was the Northumberland Manuscript, with Nevilles's name at its head, Neville's family motto and poem beneath it, and Shakespeare's signature being practised at the foot of that document.
“This is Illyria, lady.”