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6/27/2025, 7:38:13 PM
Does anyone who doesn't have a vested interest (i.e. academics) actually believe Shakespeare from Stratford wrote the canonical plays?
>William had, at best, a few years of schooling. He is otherwise fully employed working for his father and later as an actor and business man in the theatre
>Somehow Will also finds the time to write masterpiece after masterpiece, with dozens of plots and characters from foreign language sources. And he achieves all this in around 20 years.
>All of the Shakespeare canon is filled with complex legal terminology, as if the language of the law is habitual to him There is no evidence William had any legal training or experience whatsoever.
>The playwright was obsessed with Italy and shows detailed knowledge of Italy. William had no connection to Italy.
>It has improved impossible to link the plays with William’s life. This is bizarre and in complete contrast to how easy it is to link Dante, or Goethe or Dickens or Joyce etc etc with their works.
>The only play that has clear autobiographical elements that can be related to William is Merry Wives of Windsor, which is extremely different from the rest of the canon, most importantly it is of much lower literary quality.
>Contemporary sources such as Groatsworth of Wit and Ben Jonson portray William as a “Jack of all Trades” theatre man and impresario, with little learning. This is not a description of someone who wrote these highly elaborate, learned plays.
>The epitaph on William Shakespeare’s grave is embarrassingly bad doggerel. Everyone accepts this doggerel was written by William.
>During William’s lifetime there were many plays published under his name that are now considered Apocrypha. Shakespeare is the only writer in the English canon to have two sets of writings attributed to him in his lifetime.
TL;DR: Thomas North wrote essentially everything in the First Folio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GpY1WUYGOA
>William had, at best, a few years of schooling. He is otherwise fully employed working for his father and later as an actor and business man in the theatre
>Somehow Will also finds the time to write masterpiece after masterpiece, with dozens of plots and characters from foreign language sources. And he achieves all this in around 20 years.
>All of the Shakespeare canon is filled with complex legal terminology, as if the language of the law is habitual to him There is no evidence William had any legal training or experience whatsoever.
>The playwright was obsessed with Italy and shows detailed knowledge of Italy. William had no connection to Italy.
>It has improved impossible to link the plays with William’s life. This is bizarre and in complete contrast to how easy it is to link Dante, or Goethe or Dickens or Joyce etc etc with their works.
>The only play that has clear autobiographical elements that can be related to William is Merry Wives of Windsor, which is extremely different from the rest of the canon, most importantly it is of much lower literary quality.
>Contemporary sources such as Groatsworth of Wit and Ben Jonson portray William as a “Jack of all Trades” theatre man and impresario, with little learning. This is not a description of someone who wrote these highly elaborate, learned plays.
>The epitaph on William Shakespeare’s grave is embarrassingly bad doggerel. Everyone accepts this doggerel was written by William.
>During William’s lifetime there were many plays published under his name that are now considered Apocrypha. Shakespeare is the only writer in the English canon to have two sets of writings attributed to him in his lifetime.
TL;DR: Thomas North wrote essentially everything in the First Folio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GpY1WUYGOA
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