Shakespeare's sister: Digital archives reveal hidden insights into world-famous playwright's unknown sibling

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Shakespeare's sister: Digital archives reveal hidden insights into world-famous playwright's unknown sibling

By analyzing 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.