How a surprising Shakespeare discovery was found in a letter used as scrap paper

A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up.

In a paper published in the journal “Shakespeare” on Wednesday, April 23 — the bard’s 461st birthday, if you’re buying candles and an extremely large cake — Professor Matthew Steggle, Chair in Early Modern English Literature at University of Bristol, presented research that finds potential significance in the scraps of a letter first discovered in 1978.

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