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This entertaining biographical study of Shakespeare takes as its starting point a tantalizing document: the transcript of a 1612 lawsuit, involving his former landlord and a contested dowry, in which Shakespeare testified. Shakespeare apparently encouraged a reluctant young Frenchman to marry the landlord's daughter and performed a lay betrothal...
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