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In 1973, Oxford academic A L Rowse published his international breakthrough, Shakespeare the Man, in which he claimed to have decoded Shakespeare's sonnets and discovered the identity of the playwright's mysterious Dark Lady. But was his discovery based on a simple misreading?
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And on Shakespeare's birthday, we discuss the women who made him as well as his female contemporaries with Charlotte Scott, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Rami Targoff author of Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance.
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