We begin with by considering what we know (and more importantly, don’t know) about Shakespeare, focusing on: (i) what little we do know about Shakespeare’s life, (ii) the other contenders for the authorship of Shakespeare’s works, like Christopher Marlowe and the Duke of Pembroke, (iii) deconstructing Shakespeare as a construct in order to look at him as a great experimenter and a person, and (iv) how many plays Shakespeare wrote.

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