26 April 2023

Dating the plays attributed to William Shakespeare


Thirteen minutes too long?  Short version: "Nobody knows when the plays were written."


Cartoon credit: Conde Nast

2 comments:

  1. Interesting episode on "American Experience" titled "Codebreaker" - the first code breaking job of Elizebeth Smith Friedman was to find the hidden messages in the Shakespeare work. "try" was the word - there are none. She went on to become "the" codebreaker.

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  2. It is known that whoever wrote the plays wrote some of them with John Fletcher who started writing plays 2 years after de Vere died.

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