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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 19:31:31 GMT
William Shakespeare
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Post by mmexis on Jan 6, 2018 5:27:48 GMT
Shakespeare, baby!
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 6, 2018 20:29:49 GMT
I believe Shakespeare wrote them. I add this limerick for entertainment only:
A young bawd in a brothel did waken
To find her sex organs achin'.
She thought it Will's doing,
But all that rough screwing
Was authored by Sir Francis Bacon.
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Post by mrdanwest on Jan 6, 2018 23:41:21 GMT
Most of them were written by Philip Roth.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Jan 11, 2018 11:27:30 GMT
The principal difficulty in re-attributing Shakespeare's plays is that the most common alternate candidates were either dead when the late plays came out, or exhibit none of the Bard's characteristics or genius in their surviving other works. I'm surprised to see Bacon getting a stronger look in compared to the most common pretender, De Vere, in the survey here, though...
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Post by Bargle on Jan 11, 2018 14:54:11 GMT
Shakespeare.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 11, 2018 18:39:20 GMT
The Illuminati. In all seriousness, Shakespeare himself.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 11, 2018 19:47:03 GMT
It is true that we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare from Stratford-Upon-Avon, but everything we DO know connects him with the Plays, poems, and his London acting company.
More to the point, there is not one scrap, not one jot nor tittle, not a rumor, not a hint in any documentation from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras connecting anybody else. Any "evidence" of other claimants is based, as Bill Bryson has written,
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Post by needysboy on Jan 13, 2018 0:48:09 GMT
Thomas Kyd?
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jan 13, 2018 1:21:57 GMT
I did.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 14, 2018 15:39:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 17:33:01 GMT
One author wrote all the works attributed to Shakespeare and that author was Shakespeare.
Generally conspiracy theorists have, at the very least, a reason for a conspiracy to have taken place.
Why would a vast conspiracy have taken place when the plays and poems were actually written? Because back then, it wasn't understood how meaningful these works would be in the future for literature as a whole. No one knew English majors would have to take entire classes devoted to Shakespeare. Oh, the conspiracy emerged centuries after he died, you say? That in and of itself is a strong indication of sure debunkery.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 20:45:37 GMT
Gary Shakespeare
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 3:05:56 GMT
William Shakespeare, of course.
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Post by Lynx on Jan 15, 2018 3:58:55 GMT
The Donald.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 19, 2018 10:28:49 GMT
Shakespeare. The fact that the guy who wrote ID4 doubts it makes me believe it even more.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 2, 2018 21:21:19 GMT
Queen Victoria. I believe that’s the most recent and convincing theory, no? She was also Jack the Ripper, by the way. |
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 4, 2018 14:57:07 GMT
Queen Victoria. I believe that’s the most recent and convincing theory, no? She was also Jack the Ripper, by the way.  |
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Post by amyghost on Jul 20, 2018 17:02:22 GMT
The principal difficulty in re-attributing Shakespeare's plays is that the most common alternate candidates were either dead when the late plays came out, or exhibit none of the Bard's characteristics or genius in their surviving other works. I'm surprised to see Bacon getting a stronger look in compared to the most common pretender, De Vere, in the survey here, though... An excellent point in particular when coming up against de Vere's proponents. De Vere's poetry, in particular, while no means poor is certainly not comparable to Shakespeare's. Watching an Oxfordian try to wriggle out of this is usually pretty amusing. |
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