Or Shakespeare plagarized other plays and poems that he had access too.
I’ve done a fair amount of reading on this issue.
What I’ve never seen adequately addressed is the issue of motivation.
Given the social prestige issues involved, in today’s world it is approximately as if Dick Cheney had been secretly writing General Hospital scripts for the last 10 years.
While this is possible, I’m unclear why Dick would want to do it.
There is very little evidence that contemporaries viewed Shakespeare’s plays as great art, or for that matter as tremendously better than the plays of his competitors.
Which just goes to show that sometimes contemporaries are idiots.
Stevens is trying to prove Shakespeare was a fraud 500 years after the fact. Stevens has no interest in learning if Hussein is eligble to be POTUS due to BC or NBC.
What clowns.
I am sure shakespeare would have some famous line for steves idiocy or folly.
TOTUS is a fraud King like Hamlet’s uncle.
I am underwhelmed. Sometimes things just aren’t as complicated as one would think.
Who cares. I just want them to render an opinion on obama’s citizenship and birth.
Really?
Well, just who gives a big rat’s @$$ about that!!!!!
His time might be better served to consider our Constitution’s requirement for the potus to be a natural born American!!!!!
Btw, that issue seems to have gone away lately, what with all the brouhaha on the Tea Parties/Veterans, etc.!!!!!
Has anyone noticed—Never let a distraction get by w/o taking max advatage of it!!!!!
Good job, rats!!!!!
I know I am going to get stomped on this one like I was a few years back.
I do believe that the earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, wrote the plays.
Why?
1. He was a member of the court and it was unseemly for these folks to get involved with theater. It just wasn’t done.
2. deVere was very well traveled while Shakespeare was not. De Vere showed a lot of knowledge about places on the continent throughout the plays.
3. If one has spent years getting one’s degree on Shakespeare and someone states that de Vere wrote the plays rather than some small actor called Shakespeare, that would be one big blow to those who had spent all their lives studying and teaching that the actor, Shakespeare, did not write those wonderful plays. All those years down the drain.
4. This is the first time and no doubt the last time I agree with Stevens.
“Over the years, various candidates have attracted prominent supporters. Mark Twain is said to have favored Sir Francis Bacon.”
I disagree with Mark Twain. Bacon had a totally different writing style. They do not even come close.
“De Vere showed a lot of knowledge about places on the continent throughout the plays.”
Before I am stomped on, admittedly de Vere used his imagination sometimes to describe a place to where he had not been.
It’s called poetic license.