Who Wrote Shakespeare?

ABC (Australia) ^ | Monday, June 7, 2010 | Mark Colvin

[nickcarraway]

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[friendly_doc]

“Who wrote Shakespeare?”

Does it really matter? Would it lessen the literary value of Hamlet if it were written by the Earl of Oxford?

This stuff comes from “deconstructionist” academics who are on a never-ending mission to unmask big daddy.

[donhunt]

It’s all George Bush’s fault.

[twister881]

“OK, Bob, here’s your last question: What is your first name?”

“Oh man, I used to know that one.”

“Three seconds, Bob.”

[allmendream]

Those who thought that “blood” was everything could never stand that the most famous and some of the most well written things ever set to pen in the English language were written by a ‘bloody commoner’.

There is no other real reason to doubt that Shakespear wrote the plays that he said he wrote, for the troop that performed them.

Moreover, as the “popular entertainment” of the day; it was seen as no more classy or high falutin’ than a TV sitcom.

[org.whodat]

T’Pols Grandfather

[2ndDivisionVet]

We know even less about our current de facto president. Amazing, isn’t it?

[Zionist Conspirator]

"Shakespeare" was actually written by . . .

. . . The Most Interesting Man in the World.

[twister881]

Why does the most interesting man in the world look and sound like a Mexican illegal alien?”

[The_Reader_David]

My two favorite suggestions for alternative authorship of Shakespeare’s plays are (in no particular order):

1. A committee composed mostly of, noblemen headed by none other than the Sovereign, Elizabeth I (who actually had a major hand in the writing, which is why the quality of “Shakespeare’s” later plays, written after her death suffered), which included Shakespeare himself, who served as a front-man for the enterprise.

and

2. They were not written by William Shakespeare, but by another man of the same name.

[Mr. Mojo]

A question that’s been asked for many, many decades. I used to think Sir Francis Bacon was the likely culprit, but now believe the author of Shakespeare to be...

Shakespeare.

[Marauder]

“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.” — James Barrie (1860 - 1937)

[Dr. Sivana]

Joe Sobran is a big time De Vere backer. He even wrote a book on the subject. Whatever he might be, Sobran is neither a deconstructionist nor an academic.

[VanDeKoik]

I always saw him as a Spaniard.

[friendly_doc]

Isn’t it always?

[fporretto]

The best indication that "Shakespeare" didn't write those plays is the name itself. As far back as Elizabethan times, a "spear shaker" was a third-echelon player, below even Supporting Cast: a human presence on the stage who had to be there just because someone had to be there.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto

[onedoug]

It mattered to those who attacked and critiqued him. Thus the surest way to to have secured the knowledge for posterity that Shakespeare is who he’s claimed to be.

And Ben Jonson knew who he was too.

[adorno]

Why does the most interesting man in the world look and sound like a Mexican illegal alien?”

How many other stereotypes have you developed during your life?

[nickcarraway]

I think that’s probably an urban legend, but anyway, he didn’t even use that form of his name himself necessarily.