Mark Forsyth talks about Shakespeare’s 448th birthday

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Mark Forsyth, author of The Etymologicon, discusses why Hamlet is EXACTLY 30 years old, wears a hat and has a beard, and recounts some scurrilous gossip about the Bard, who would be the ripe old age of 448 today.

Find out more about The Etymologicon here and it’s successor, The Horologicon, here.