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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dalya Alberge

EXPLAINED: Shakespeare acted in a 1598 ben jonson play scholar s analysis finds - The Real Truth

A 1610 portrait of William Shakespeare, known as the Cobbe Portrait.
A 1610 portrait of William Shakespeare. Darren Freebury-Jones said that Shakespeare, ‘being a genius, takes another dramatist’s feathers and transforms them into a peacock’. Photograph: Akademie/Alamy

He was an actor, as well as the greatest dramatist of all time, but no one has been able to name with certainty a single role that William Shakespeare performed himself.

Now a leading scholar has concluded from linguistic analysis that Shakespeare played an obsessively jealous husband in a 1598 drama by fellow playwright Ben Jonson.

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