Shakespeare ’ s sister: how using digital archives revealed hidden insights into world famous playwright ’ s unknown sibling

By analysing digital copies of an incredibly rare and obscure 17th century Italian religious text, a University of Bristol academic has revealed that a long-lost document previously thought to have been written by William Shakespeare ’ s father belongs in fact to his relatively unknown sister Joan.
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