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Tudor coroners’ records give clue to ‘real Ophelia’ for Shakespeare
How coool…
From BBC:
“Dr Steven Gunn has found a coroner’s report into the drowning of a Jane Shaxspere in 1569.
The girl, possibly a young cousin of William Shakespeare, had been picking flowers when she fell into a millpond near Stratford upon Avon.
Dr Gunn says there are “tantalising”...