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Monday, January 06, 2020
"Shakespeare's Will" at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh PA, USA
The Theatre Times: When William Shakespeare died in 1616, he left behind dozens of plays and hundreds of poems, but little other than a last will and testament to shed light on his personal life. That document contains a much-debated line that has been inserted, almost as an afterthought, into a paragraph detailing his fairly generous bequest to his younger daughter Judith: “I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.”
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