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Is Shakespeare Dead?

CHAPTER III
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In a hurry.

By grace of a reluctantly-granted dispensation there was but one publication of the banns.
Within six months the first child was born.
About two (blank) years followed, during which period _nothing at all happened to Shakespeare_, so far as anybody knows.
Then came twins--1585.

February.
Two blank years follow.
Then--1587--he makes a ten-year visit to London, leaving the family behind.
Five blank years follow.

During this period _nothing happened to him_, as far as anybody actually knows.
Then--1592--there is mention of him as an actor.
Next year--1593--his name appears in the official list of players.
Next year--1594--he played before the queen.

A detail of no consequence: other obscurities did it every year of the forty-five of her reign.


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