[Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookIs Shakespeare Dead?
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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Still it was physically possible, provided always that he could have had access to the needful books.
But this legal training seems to me to stand on a different footing.
It is not only unaccountable and incredible, but it is actually negatived by the known facts of his career." Lord Penzance then refers to the fact that "by 1592 (according to the best authority, Mr.Grant White) several of the plays had been written.
_The Comedy of Errors_ in 1589, _Love's Labour's Lost_ in 1589, _Two Gentlemen of Verona_ in 1589 or 1590, and so forth," and then asks, "with this catalogue of dramatic work on hand.
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