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.

[Olog-hai]

[yesthatjallen]

No.

[a fool in paradise]

He was a Klingon.

[Secret Agent Man]

Correct, no.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Yes... He could have been a trans-woman... or a trans-trans-trans woman... etc. etc. etc.

But in reality, he was a man !

[Telepathic Intruder]

“You’ve not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”

[a fool in paradise]

He’s a dead white male and his work is to be shunned.

Didn’t she get the memo?

Let’s recite Maya Angelou instead.

[a fool in paradise]

BUT he wrote parts for men to read DRESSED as women!

[Telepathic Intruder]

I should have included the youtube clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCVuO1yeJc

[Olog-hai]

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

No.

[Mount Athos]

Why is this author so narrow minded?
Why stop at whether the author was a woman.
Couldn’t the author have been a lesbian woman of color who identified as the opposite sex?

[a fool in paradise]

23 minutes
Klingons and Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0k4qV1I1Y

[Peter ODonnell]

To be, or not to be. Whatever, I can totally handle it.

[a fool in paradise]

Let's just be grateful that Willie the Shake wasn't a Furry.

[Ken H]

It was a different guy who had the same name.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Perhaps that was because he was allowed no female actors ...

[Telepathic Intruder]

Klingon is in fact a very limited language. Only a couple hundred words or so. How would you say this, my favorite poem of his:

Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are corals made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade
But do suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his bell.
Hark now, I can hear them:
Ding dong bell.

That was from memory. No copy-pasting.

[NFHale]

“...Let’s recite Maya Angelou instead....”

No... let’s not.

At best she’s retarded.

At worst, she’s a communist AND retarded.