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Wikipedia indicates that the current movie Hamnet, based on the 2022 novel by Maggie O’Farrell, is fiction. But one need not resort to Wikipedia to know “Hamnet” is fiction. Though it’s a movie about Shakespeare, the film begins by featuring the great Renaissance playwright and poet as a Latin tutor.

Shakespeare enthusiasts might take umbrage with the reality that he was learned in only one language, that obviously being English. Ben Jonson, highly educated and a contemporary of Shakespeare, once said of him “William knows little Latin and less Greek.” Shakespeare did not teach Latin. He was very much a “commoner” with little formal education.

On the other hand, Shakespeare detractors, discredited crackpots who insist he was not the true auth

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