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In 1613, William Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Susannah Hall, wife of the Stratford physician, Dr John Hall, brought a charge of defamation against Jack Lane in the diocesan court of Worcester Cathedral. Lane, according to the court archives, had stated that Susannah 'had the running of the reynes and had been naught with Rafe Smith'. In contemporary English, Lane had accused her of having gonorrhoea, the result of an adulterous affair with a haberdasher, Rafe Smith. This intriguingly obscure epsiode kindled the imagination of British playwright Peter Whelan. |
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