Shakespeare diary entry to go on display

06 December 2015 - 02:00
By The Daily Telegraph

A diary entry providing a bawdy glimpse into Shakespeare's character as a womaniser will be on display to the public for the first time in a major British library in a London exhibition next year. The anecdote, discovered by scholars in the journal of a law student, John Manningham, recounts an amusing story about Shakespeare, his actor friend Richard Burbage and a tryst with a fan.

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