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Little Known Allusions

Enhance your readings of the texts! Here's a list of little known allusions.

DID YOU KNOW?

Shakespeare intended for us to read Hamlet as an inverted Christ figure?

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LOOK AT THE WORDS!

Macbeth is closely related to the Latin word for macabre.

Holy Moses!

The main characters in the following plays are meant to be read as Moses figures: Richard III, King Lear, Henry IV, and Romeo.

What's with Bacon?

Some scholars suggest that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays for him!

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