[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.

[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

[arthurus]

Troupe.