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CHAPTER VIII--Shakespeare as a Lawyer {2}
The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare supply ample evidence that their
author not only had a very extensive and accurate knowledge of law, but
that he was well acquainted with the manners and customs of members of
the Inns of Court and with legal life generally
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Shakespeare of Stratford was the author of the _Plays_ and _Poems_, but the author of the _Plays_ and _Poems_ could not have been a butcher's apprentice.
Away, therefore, with tradition.
But the author of the _Plays_ and _Poems must_ have had a very large and a very accurate knowledge of the law.
Therefore, Shakespeare of Stratford must have been an attorney's clerk! The method is simplicity itself.
By similar reasoning Shakespeare has been made a country schoolmaster, a soldier, a physician, a printer, and a good many other things beside, according to the inclination and the exigencies of the commentator.
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