Epox!

Hello and welcome to Epox. As you noticed, I'm recording in the first studio again today, just for technical reasons. But let's just jump straight into it. Today, I thought I'd do sort of a one-off. It might be a two-parter. We'll see all about the life of William Shakespeare. Something a little bit different, because as a lot of people might know, that the history isn't

exactly full about Shakespeare, who he was. There's various ideas about who he might have been,

or if it was an amalgam of different people, like Homer, the ancient Greek poet Homer,

not Homer Simpson. Anyway, talking about Shakespeare.

So I've got a lovely quaint little book here, which I've read from before.

Great Englishman of the 16th century by Sidney Lee.

It's a very, very early, very early 20th century book, and it's very quaint, you know, super, super pre-woke or anything like that.

So I thought we could just talk about it, I'll read it and I'll interrupt myself as usual,

and talk all about everything about the life and career of Shakespeare.

Okay, let's just jump straight in.

We're told, the obscurity with which Shakespeare's biography has been long credited

is greatly exaggerated. The mere biographical

information accessible is far more definite and more abundant than that concerning any other

dramatist of the day. In the case of no contemporary dramatist are the precise biographical

dates and details, dates of baptism, burial, circumstances of marriages,

circumstances of children, the private pecuniary transactions of his career, the means of determining

the years in which his various literary works were planned and produced, equally numerous or based on equally firm documentary foundation.

Okay, so right away you see there that they're saying,

he's not as opaque as some people try and make out.

He definitely was a real person, for a start, not many people,

and that we actually know a fair bit about his life.

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