Posted on 04/23/2020 2:27:43 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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He doesn’t look a day past 455.
I thought that was from Nights in White Satin.
(It's also St. George's Day, in commemoration of the Roman soldier who was martyred for the Faith under Diocletian on 04/23/303.)
The ‘rheumatic diseases’ of this quote may be a reminder of the 1592-93 Plague reoccurrence that hit the London area with about a 12% fatality rate. This came shortly after Shakespeare’s probable start date in the city as he already had Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI performing in the early 1590s.
When we talk of pandemics, what we are seeing now is so pale in comparison to the 10 waves of plagues that swept through England alone from 1350 to 1666. In the 1500s, these attacks came almost every generation!
He only wrote in Ink. Problem was - 2B or not 2B !
Just watched a special on Will - there is no evidence he even knew how to read or write. The County he lived in has no record of him signing anything including his marriage license.
No evidence he wrote one word of his “works”
Edward de Vere.
Gosh you know a lot about Shakespeare.
Did the “special” you watched refer to him as ‘Will’?
Soros and the rest of the “Yo Ho Ho Western Culture No” crowd would be proud of you.
Read the Case Against Shakespeare’s Authorship.
I have. Much of it is shoddy history without much to stand on.
Likewise, those who assert Shakespeare’s authenticity have little direct evidence to back up their claims.
It’s all in whose sparse evidence you choose to believe.
read Shakespeare.
Sweet swan of Avon!
Nope it is subject matter and access to it
As well controversy
The reason for the animity of the Bard
“Brush up your Shakespeare”
That's my favorite number from that musical, which I've only seen as a stage shaking high school production (wish we'd had videocams back then). Somehow the theater in Stratford Ontario always manages to pull a rabbit out of its hat when it produces "Taming of the Shrew", a play which isn't a good fit for the unreconstructed politically correct crowd.
Ben Jonson’s encomium to William Shakespeare
The First Folio | A.D. 1623 | Ben Jonson
Posted on 02/12/2006 9:46:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Happy Birthday, Will. Many more.
Dr Who - Carol of the Birds
The Shakespeare Code - David Tennant
https://youtu.be/9KJ6dO0B3V8
When I took Shakespeare at university it was like I was introduced to a new and rich world I never knew existed.
The plays we were given in high school were Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. A different play, almost ANY other Shakespeare, would have been a better choice. My first exposure to Shakespeare was a TV production (maybe Hallmark Hall of Fame) of "Midsummer Night's Dream" -- and despite being in elementary school, my friends and I were all so jazzed we wanted to stage it ourselves. It fell apart because we all wanted to be Puck. :^)
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