CEDRIC BENNETT
WHO?
Shakespeare: fact or legend?
Nearly everything we know about Shakespeare came from dusty boxes of legal papers. Nearly everything people believe about him came from legends. Ten claims. Sort them. Then crack a 400-year-old code.
ON PAPER — a real document from the period, or a documented event.
LEGEND — a story, a guess, or a theory that no document supports.
Expert level. About five minutes.