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“My hour is almost come” speaks the ghost as he pleads with Hamlet to avenge his murder (Act 1, Scene V). These same words are spoken four hundred years later by another ghost; a ghost who has waited centuries for the public to accept a woman behind the name William Shakespeare. But who was she? Thus begins the mystery of the
LADY OF THE PLAY
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When Countess Elizabeth Trentham de Vere (aka Shakespeare) wrote about a double cherry in Midsummer Night’s Dream, was she thinking of her relationship with her husband, Edward de Vere, illustrating to the world proof of their collaboration?
As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition; two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
An outlandish statement?
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