Posted on 05/10/2019 10:07:23 PM PDT by OddLane
A man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. Reverse Victor Victoria.
Not a chance... I have seen “The Doctor” meet with, and work with, Shakespeare...
“You’ve not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
I have a copy of Hamlet with English and Klingon on facing pages. Also have 2 Klingon fonts.
lol lol rotflmao
Need to find this photoshop
No.
It was generated (my idea) in one of those online meme generators. :^) So, thanks! ;^)
i think SHAKESPEARE was a very talented wombat and not a person at all.
Mark Twain: “Shakespeare didn’t write his plays. It was someone else with the same name.”
As a child we had a dog named Louie whose nickname was Toopee. To pee or not to pee was the question, but the answer was always the same with Louie, to pee. He was also known as the fasted pee in the west, south, east and north. Every state our family visited, even for the shortest of time, he was allowed to get out and mark it as his own.
He was also so mean that he was legendary in the neighborhood. When he was let out you could see the children run quickly into their houses screaming the warning “Louie is out! Louie is out!”. When I meet up with kids from the old neighborhood scores of years later they still remember and remark about Louie.
I can just picture a woman traipsing around to libraries digging up all that historical stuff and previous dramas that his work was based on.
Sorry, but no.
Not to mention the testosterone is took to actually write those things.
Last weekend the Atlantic magazine published a long article that I initially assumed must be a similarly imaginative parody of misplaced literary ingenuity. The piece, titled "Was Shakespeare a Woman?", suggests that the works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford may have been written by a woman. The author, Elizabeth Winkler, maintains: "Doubts about whether William Shakespeare ... really wrote the works attributed to him are almost as old as the writings themselves."
She accuses what she calls orthodox Shakespeare scholars of "a dogmatism of their own" on the issue, whereby "even to dabble in authorship questions is considered a sign of bad faith, a blinkered failure to countenance genius in a glover's son." Armed with this tendentious premise, along with the less contentious one that Shakespeare depicts female characters with unrivalled sympathy and insight, Winkler spins a hypothesis that Emilia Bassano, born in London in 1569 to Venetian immigrants, is a viable candidate for the true author.
Even as I read Winkler's piece, I expected a denouement that it was all a piece of fiction, analogous to the enjoyable 2009 caper St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, which ends with buried treasure under the Globe Theatre and the discovery of Shakespeare's true identity. It never came. The article was presented as a serious contribution to a debate in which Winkler has made a potentially historic discovery...
Price is neither meticulous nor a scholar (she designates herself "an independent scholar," which should have caused Winkler greater wariness). As Alan Nelson of Berkeley University has put it, Price knows how to put a sentence together but she doesn't know how to put an argument together...
Yet it turns out that I was mistaken in thinking that Winkler was guilty of mere inattention and incuriosity. In the storm of social media comment over the past few days, one post stands out. Diana Henderson of MIT, whose scholarly expertise includes Shakespeare, early modern poetry and drama, and gender studies, wrote on Twitter: "[Winkler] contacted me almost a year ago, & although I gave lengthy email replies, doesn't acknowledge the fact that many of us who are most interested in women writers & know their dramatic as well as poetic works find this fanciful. EW seeking only to find what she wanted."
Conspiracism at the Atlantic | Oliver Kamm | May 16, 2019 | Quillette
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