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thievery. It is there with a pur- thor of the play even are up
pose though. He did not do it for debate. Some say that
to take credit for the words or Shakespeare did not write this
the plot. He did it so that peo- play. Instead it is often pre-
ple would understand the dicted that a later and lesser
complexity of both the book poet wrote the play and put
and the play. Kinbote stole Shakespeare’s name on it.
the show by making it about Nabokov provides evidence
himself. The bandits wanted that he wants us to look at
to steal the money. Thievery is Pale Fire in the same way. It
an important part in both. has been called to question
who wrote what parts of the
book, was it written all by one
What is more, the author of
person or was their truly two
parts of the book and the au-
Shakespeare doesn’t appreciate these theories against him . . .
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