Q: Westerners taking away manuscripts

[Anand Venkt Raman]

>century arab child-poet called Sheikh Zubeir.  The young Zubeir composed a
>set of poetic dramas of such piercing beauty that he was kidnapped by some
>English traders who brought him up in London and made him forget his
>origins, changing his name to Shakespeare.

Here I was thinking Shakespeare was originally a Smartha Brahmin from
South India called Seshappa Iyer.

:-)

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