Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwri

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Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

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