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One of Shakespeare's contemporaries said he favoured "kingly roles" and there is an old story that he played the Ghost in Hamlet. Could be. It's easy to imagine what other roles he may have played: Henry IV in the Henry IV plays, Gonzalo in The Tempest, The Duke or Lodovico in Othello.

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