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Conspiracy: Who wrote Shakespeare?

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In episode four of our new series on history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we ask why many people don’t believe that William Shakespeare was the real author of the plays attributed to him. In conversation with Rob Attar, Shakespeare expert Dr Paul Edmondson discusses the alternative candidates that have been put forward and considers whether this is a legitimate debate to be having. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

0:27.5

it's just between us. This October, a remarkable true story comes to the big screen.

0:33.9

I have direct syndrome and it makes me tick. In the film, critics are calling powerful and life-affirming. The problem is that people don't know enough about Tourette's. I can sit here but I can help this lad. Laugh out loud, funny and uplifting. That young man would not harm a fly and he makes a damn fine cup of tea. With a brilliant lead performance, it's unmissable. Hey! Starring Robert Arameo, Maxine P, Peter Mullen and Shirley Henderson, I swear, in

0:58.9

Cinema's October 10.

1:01.2

William Shakespeare is England's greatest playwright and arguably the most famous author

1:06.1

in the English language.

1:08.3

By the time he died in 1616, he'd written close to 40 plays, among

1:13.6

them incomparable works of history, tragedy and comedy. Or had he? What if the man

1:20.5

behind Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and Julius Caesar was not William Shakespeare at all,

1:26.6

but another author, hiding behind Shakespeare's name so

1:29.8

is not to reveal his true identity. Welcome to the fourth episode of Conspiracy from History

1:35.7

Extra. I'm Rob Atar, and today we're going to be looking to the theory that the wrong man

1:41.1

has been taking the credit for these works of genius.

1:46.4

Why do some people doubt William Shakespeare,

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