All The Mysteries That Remain

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Shakespeare Didn't Write the Masterpieces; He Wrote the Plays His Company Performed--the Bad Quartos
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Shakespeare Didn't Write the Masterpieces; He Wrote the Plays His Company Performed--the Bad Quartos

And the bad quartos are what all his audience members and readers believed Shakespeare had written

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Indeed, the real question is not, what did Shakespeare write? The title pages and all contemporaneous documents make this clear. No, the real question is, why does anyone think Shakespeare was the literary genius who penned the original, refined dramas?

As will be shown, this is the opening lines of the famous monologue that Shakespeare’s audiences actua…

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