rite such detailed plays. There is the more extreme belief that the bard was even illiterate. There is no proof that Shakespeare of Stratford even attended a school, and "there [lacks any] scrap of evidence...letters...notes or drafts in his own hand, to prove that Shakespeare could use a pen" (Michell, 98). Most of the educated men of the time attended universities and were of the noble class. Shakespeare was not of this same rank, so speculation about the source of his knowledge began to surface. For some, it is completely unheard of and unacceptable that
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