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Left: A polemical woodcut deriding Nashe as jailbird (1597). Right: A copper engraving of Shakespeare from the title page of the First Folio (1623). Folger Shakespeare Library (left) and Yale Beinecke Library (right).

Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co‑author, Thomas Nashe

Brett Greatley-Hirsch, University of Leeds; Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex, and Rachel White, Durham University

Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.
After The 1572 St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre many Protestants fled France for England. Francois Dubois

Refugees and riots in Shakespeare’s England

Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

David Cameron has pledged that Britain will take 20,000 Syrian refugees – but how did Henry VIII manage those in need 500 years ago?

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