shakespearenews: The earliest mention of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is in a notebook of gossi
shakespearenews:The earliest mention of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is in a notebook of gossip, observations and sermon notes kept by John Manningham while a law student at Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court in London…Five weeks later (and in the same manuscript), Manningham records an amusing story: Shakespeare had overheard Richard Burbage and a woman planning a tryst after a performance of Shakespeare’s Richard III. When Burbage went to meet the woman, Shakespeare was already with her, and sent a cheeky message to him that “William the Conqueror was before Richard III.”John Manningham’s Diary: earliest mention of Twelfth Night and a Shakespeare anecdote on Shakespeare Documented. -- source link
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