... ."" The cause of his death is not known, though a report from the Holy Trinity's vicar in the 1660s claims that he "died of a fever contracted after a night of drinking with Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton, friends and fellow writers."" Shakespeare left the bulk of his estate to his daughter Susanna and the sum of 300 pounds to his daughter Judith. The ... ...

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... and factotum of the Chamberlain's men theatre. Another theory is that they could have agreed on using Shakspere's name as a pseudonym, but these theories are very far fetched. (Bethel 50) Ben Johnson's prefatory poem in the First Folio, in 1623, is the only piece of evidence pointing Shakspere to the authorship title. In this poem, Johnson calls the author "sweet swan ... ...

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