Who was Shakespeare? Could The Author Have Been A Woman?

The Atlantic ^ | June 2019 | Elizabeth

[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.

[Viking2002]

Sure, and Noah was a black lesbian. We gotta find a way to seal the quantum tear between our universe and the one these freaks are pouring from, and fast.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Ring his knell. See, one mistake.

[higgmeister]

Six months into the #MeToo movement, her fury and frustration felt newly resonant.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

[kaehurowing]

Yes, she was a bald woman with a beard.

[Salamander]

Hell no.

[canuck_conservative]

The Sonnets might not be so shocking?

[dp0622]

Elizabeth needs a man. Or a woman. Who knows?

But she definitely needs some action.

[seawolf101]

[bagster]

Who was Shakespeare? Could The Author Have Been A Woman?

Sure. And he coulda' been a lizard people from Alpha Centauri.

I wasn't there.

Not likely though. I'd say about 85 gazillion to the tenth magnitude to one.

So maybe.

[vpintheak]

Sure. Why not? Does that make you feminazi’s feel better now? There, there.

[Olog-hai]

This Elizabeth Winkler actually writes for the Wall Street Journal, too. (I shouldn’t be surprised. The New Republic also.) Alumnus of Princeton and Stanford.

Her current theory is that Shakespeare “plagiarized” the writings of Emilia Bassano.

[rfp1234]

Yeah, right. Why not an albino hermaphrodite?

[SunkenCiv]

[wastedyears]

I don’t care, I want more science fiction.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Shakespeare's plays were written by a time-traveling Gwyneth Paltrow.

I saw the movie and am certain of this fact.

(With each purchase of one of Shakespeare' work get a free basket of bath gels and body lotions.)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The other theory is that the plays were written by Edward de Vere the 17th Earl of Oxford who was thought to be bisexual.

This would explain the sexual ambiguity of the sonnets.

Joe Sobran was a big proponent of this theory. His main argument was that Eddie baby was well-traveled especially in the countries where the plays took place, and was well aware of all of the niceties of the courts that appear in the plays.

The main argument against Eddie baby is the official dates of publishing as Eddie baby died before the last couple of plays came out. But if the dates are wrong, or the plays were published posthumously then he's still a viable candidate.

[metmom]

Oh sure.

Or a tranny? Why not go all the way?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Women don’t have a spear to shake.

[PIF]

Her current theory is that Shakespeare “plagiarized” the writings of Emilia Bassano.

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who “plagiarized” Sir Francis Bacon’s writings ... so there you go it was a guy after all.

[PIF]

Emilia Bassano is also alleged to have been WS’s girlfriend. She published a single volume of her piss poor poetry.