Historian's little comedy of errors

I fear Dr Tristram Hunt may have got carried away when writing today's risible Mail on Sunday polemic about the need for Britons to celebrate the death of Guy Fawkes. In extolling the virtues of the King James Bible as "part of the literature that helped to codify a culture in a proudly English language" he then asserted that in its "wake came the works of Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan". I have no argument about the latter pair, but the Bard of Avon had written virtually all of his plays and sonnets well before the king's bible was published in 1611. An odd mistake for the man proudly billed in the paper as "lecturer in history at Queen Mary, University of London." (Via Mail on Sunday)