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Who was Shakespeare? Could The Author Have Been A Woman?
The Atlantic ^ | June 2019 | Elizabeth

Posted on 05/10/2019 10:07:23 PM PDT by OddLane

On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our memories of the play’s best lines. I pulled up Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy on my iPhone. “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” I read, thrilled once again by the incantatory power of the verse.

I remembered where I was when I first heard those lines: in my 10th-grade English class, startled out of my adolescent stupor by this woman rebelling magnificently and malevolently against her submissive status. “Make thick my blood, / Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse.” Six months into the #MeToo movement, her fury and frustration felt newly resonant.

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1 posted on 05/10/2019 10:07:23 PM PDT by OddLane
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2 posted on 05/10/2019 10:11:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: OddLane

No.


3 posted on 05/10/2019 10:14:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: OddLane

He was a Klingon.


4 posted on 05/10/2019 10:15:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen

Correct, no.


5 posted on 05/10/2019 10:16:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: OddLane

Yes... He could have been a trans-woman... or a trans-trans-trans woman... etc. etc. etc.

But in reality, he was a man !


6 posted on 05/10/2019 10:17:57 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: a fool in paradise

“You’ve not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”


7 posted on 05/10/2019 10:18:00 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: OddLane

He’s a dead white male and his work is to be shunned.

Didn’t she get the memo?

Let’s recite Maya Angelou instead.


8 posted on 05/10/2019 10:18:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

BUT he wrote parts for men to read DRESSED as women!


9 posted on 05/10/2019 10:19:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a fool in paradise
I should have included the youtube clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCVuO1yeJc
10 posted on 05/10/2019 10:21:08 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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11 posted on 05/10/2019 10:22:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: OddLane

No.


12 posted on 05/10/2019 10:23:05 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: OddLane

Why is this author so narrow minded?
Why stop at whether the author was a woman.
Couldn’t the author have been a lesbian woman of color who identified as the opposite sex?


13 posted on 05/10/2019 10:23:41 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Telepathic Intruder

23 minutes
Klingons and Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0k4qV1I1Y


14 posted on 05/10/2019 10:24:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To be, or not to be. Whatever, I can totally handle it.


15 posted on 05/10/2019 10:26:12 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: Mount Athos
Let's just be grateful that Willie the Shake wasn't a Furry.


16 posted on 05/10/2019 10:26:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: OddLane

It was a different guy who had the same name.


17 posted on 05/10/2019 10:26:46 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: a fool in paradise

Perhaps that was because he was allowed no female actors ...


18 posted on 05/10/2019 10:31:15 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: a fool in paradise
Klingon is in fact a very limited language. Only a couple hundred words or so. How would you say this, my favorite poem of his:

Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are corals made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade
But do suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his bell.
Hark now, I can hear them:
Ding dong bell.

That was from memory. No copy-pasting.
19 posted on 05/10/2019 10:36:08 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: a fool in paradise

“...Let’s recite Maya Angelou instead....”

No... let’s not.

At best she’s retarded.

At worst, she’s a communist AND retarded.


20 posted on 05/10/2019 10:36:12 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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