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Shakespeare and the Number 14

The Bard of Avon was the greatest wordsmith of his time, if not of all time. But his legacy lies in more than just clever turns of phrase and the invention of hordes of new vocabulary. There’s numbers too?

Shakespearean sonnets are structured around a very particular pattern. Professor Roger Bowley explains how Shakespeare mastered that patter, and it’s all about the number 14.

(via Brain Pickings)