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in his conceit the only ''shake-scene'' in a country."  
 
in his conceit the only ''shake-scene'' in a country."  
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The 'tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide' is a reference to one of Shakespeare's plays, ''[[The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth]]'', <ref> [[Great Books, Shakespeare: I]], Edited by Mortimer J. Adler, 1952.  </ref>  while 'shake-scene' is a pun or play on words on Shakespeare's name.
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The 'tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide' is a reference to one of Shakespeare's plays, ''[[The Third Part of King Henry VI]]'', <ref> [[Great Books, Shakespeare: I]], Edited by Mortimer J. Adler, 1952.  </ref>  while 'shake-scene' is a pun or play on words on Shakespeare's name.
    
His plays seem to show so much education and erudition that there are even theories that they must have been written by someone else, famous candidates being the Earl of Oxford and Sir Francis Bacon. Like Kennedy assassination theories, most scholars do not believe them, but there are enough questions that new books promoting new theories of Shakespearean authorship continue to keep coming out over the years.
 
His plays seem to show so much education and erudition that there are even theories that they must have been written by someone else, famous candidates being the Earl of Oxford and Sir Francis Bacon. Like Kennedy assassination theories, most scholars do not believe them, but there are enough questions that new books promoting new theories of Shakespearean authorship continue to keep coming out over the years.

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