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Textual variants in Shakespeare's love letter to Anne Hathaway
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Textual variants in Shakespeare's love letter to Anne Hathaway

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Heather Wolfe

When Shakespeare was young and in love, he wrote a gushing letter to his bride-to-be, enclosing with it a lock of his hair and five verses. Or that’s what an audacious teenager in the 1790s would have us all believe. The supposed love letter…

Shakespeare's personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland
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Shakespeare's personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland

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Arnold Hunt Heather Wolfe

Co-written by Heather Wolfe and Arnold Hunt It’s every bibliophile’s dream. You’re in a bookshop, or maybe at a local auction, browsing idly along the shelves. It’s late in the afternoon and you’re just preparing to leave, when you spot a…