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Black Lucy & The Fair Youth

Poet Caroline Randall Williams introduces a party that Lucy (Claudia Monja), Shakespeare (Owen Thorne) and the Fair Youth (Nicolas Scheuer) all may have attended in London in 1594.

Black Lucy & The Fair Youth

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