Topic: Stratford-upon-Avon
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Chapter & Verse Shakespeare: tax evader and food hoarder?
A new study by researchers at Aberystwyth University found that the playwright was fined multiple times for selling food at high prices during a famine and was also threatened with prison for tax evasion.
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William Shakespeare: tax dodger, shady businessman?
William Shakespeare avoided paying taxes and hoarded grain during famine, according to researchers. They argue that William Shakespeare the grain hoarder has been has been 'redacted from history so that Shakespeare the creative genius could be born.'
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Will Contested
Conspiracy theories aside, argues Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro, Shakespeare really did write Shakespeare.
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Is "Double Falsehood" a lost work by Shakespeare?
After years of disparagement, a play named "Double Falsehood" is now being lifted closer to the Shakespeare canon.
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