[Borges]

The plays also have a zest for role playing and acting. Who else but a former actor could have conceived it this way. Ben Jonson said Shakespeare knew little Latin and less Greek. Enough to pass though. And there are plenty of anachronisms (clocks in Julis Caesar) as well that bear the sign of lack of scholarhip and haste.

[nickcarraway]

People say whoever wrote the plays must have been in the courts of Europe. I say that person was never there. Shakespeare's portrayals of court scenese were the result of great writing, great imagination, some reading, and whatever he may have actually seen in England's court. His portrayals were hardly documentary, nor were they meant to be.