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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 29, 2017 21:57:23 GMT
I've never heard the controversy spun as being solely and exclusively classist but rather that the plays evince a knowledge of things "a middle class kid born into a nobody family" would be less likely to've known. "the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays thought Padua had a harbor, Bohemia had a coastline, France had lions, and ancient Rome had clocks." Oh really? Actually, the plays do nothing of the sort. Sure, they tended to be about people in the upper class, but so did a lot of other stories written by normal people. "So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his life." Mark Twain |
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