Shakespire

Shakespire was a dramaturge of Old Earth, who lived in the 2nd Millennium.^[1][2]

Known Works

By the time of the Great Crusade, complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays had been catalogued by Imperial remembrancers.^[1]

• Amulet, Prince Demark - attributed to Shakespire.^[2][3]

Trivia

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• It is implied that Shakespire is a corruption of Shakespeare, with the fact that only three plays are attributed to him an example given to show how much knowledge was lost to humanity in the Age of Strife, or simply by the passage of time. Ironically, Shakepeare himself was known to use many different spellings for his own name, although Shakespire is not known to be amongst those.

Sources

• 1: Prospero Burns (Novel), Chapter Two
• 2: The Aegidan Oath (Short Story) - Scythes of the Emperor (Anthology)
• 3: The Unremembered Empire (Novel), Chapter 1