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HOW RAFFISH WAS SHAKESPEARE?

June 27, 2010 at 11:00 PM · Literature, Shakespeare, Theater

HOW RAFFISH WAS SHAKESPEARE? I mentioned what I had read about George Wilkins, the brothelkeeper and collaborator with Shakespeare, to a friend of Nick’s who has acted in Pericles. He smiled and said something about how that was consistent with how he thought of Shakespeare. I was surprised. I have always thought of Shakespeare as a respected bourgeois citizen of Stratford.