Shakespeare shaken up..................
Basically the whole family was educated. And his sister, Joan Shakespeare Hart, was a closet Catholic who wrote secretly about it.
I smell BS.
“a woman previously all but erased from history.”
“Why Has She Been Overlooked?”
“Her existence is barely noted in the historical record”
Don’t you have to have had a place in history before you can be erased?
Something tells me this woman is going to become blown out of proportion by feminists and Catholics.
And, sadly, the writer of this article feels compelled to whine about how the women of Shakespeare’s time were so oppressed.
Feminist nonsense. I don’t buy it for a minute.
We need more of this woke gobbledygook like a fish needs a bicycle.
Color me shocked. More twaddle-brained, ignorant speculation by a dumbass who has just demonstrated that she knows nothing about history or religion.
I guess the gal who wrote the cited text above knows only the writings of 20th-century feminist bores, and nothing about the Catholic faith of Shakespeare's family of origin. Joan Shakespeare referring to the Mother of Christ as "the principal executor of my soul" is not saying anything that doesn't apply to any believing Catholic of either sex, in any era of Western history, regardless of the social conventions.
Our Lady (the Blessed Virgin Mary) always has Her Son's ear, and intercedes with God on behalf of those who pray to her. That's what the devout Mrs. Hart was talking about--no more and no less. Arezki Amiri, who appears to have written the unfortunate essay above, needs to go back to Junior High School somewhere literate, where, even in America, we can get a grasp of real things that happened before we were born.
One of the arguments that Wm S was not the author of the plays traditionally attributed to him, is that so many of the plays are set in Italy, yet he had not travelled there or been otherwise connected. Well move over Earl of Oxford, this BOMBSHELL!!! manuscript places an Italian work in the Shakespeare family home. I’d better whip out a PhD dissertation this weekend before a dozen scholars beat me to it...
“…has been reattributed to his sister, Joan Shakespeare Hart, in a new peer-reviewed study“”…”
Oh here we go. How long before they re attribute the whole canon to sis? (Then if there’s some black maid lurking in the background sis’s had better watch it).
Slightly off-topic maybe, but where Will Shakespeare is concerned, I agree with Joseph Sobran.
This is the Revolution!