It can be misleading as a twenty-first century scholar to approach Shakespeare's plays solely as a reader, the most common way we access his plays today. We study these texts, often without the luxury of seeing or hearing the audio-visual tactics Shakespeare so well employed upon the stage. Tokens of love were often exchanged onstage, and messages were delivered orally among different players, but what is more, Shakespeare used letters in many situations to both convey information and to bring about the resolution of his plots. In some of his earlier plays, Shakespeare uses the epistolary arts to express love between two characters, using
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