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Shakespeare: who put those thoughts in his head?
Today everybody reads Shakespeare. But what books did he read? Jonathan Bate on the writers who shaped the world’s greatest playwright – and the three books the Bard would pick for Desert Island Discs.
What did Shakespeare believe? We can only guess. He left neither a diary nor a philosophical treatise…
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