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Shakespeare plays NATHANIEL, a learned man

Illustration: Shakespeare plays Nathaniel dressed as an Elizabethan scholar. He looks disdainful as he converses with his friend Holefernes (also in scholarly garb) who stands next to him

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Nathaniel and Holofernes - men who have had more education than is probably good for them - establish the reason for their companion's slowness of wit.
Love's Labour's Lost
Act 4 Scene 2

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