What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. (Stephen Greenblatt)

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

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