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After a career as a copywriter and all-round marketeer, Beverley Davies is now concentrating on creative writing. She has a special interest in show business, and has written a biography of the English eccentric Margaret Rutherford. Extracts from this can be found on Myspace (www.myspace.com/damemargaret).

Arts & Humanities > William Shakespeare Learning to appreciate Shakespeare

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A lot of anachronistic supposition is made about Shakespeare. Both his sexuality and his fitness to produce his poetry and plays have been constantly questioned in our conspiracy-mad times. But an understanding of his education sheds light on both questions. To paraphrase Dr Carol Rutter, speaking at the recent "Boys Event" at Shakespeare's Globe (2nd March 2008), for the Englishman watching an Elizabethan boy player masquerading as a girl, the reaction was unlikely to be of any sexual nature. Given the nature of his own grammar school days, it was probably more likely to evoke nostalgia. ...

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