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22689954 No.22689954 [Reply] [Original]

How was he able to do plays dealing with recent history? Weren't the queen and the aristocracy butthurt about it?

>> No.22689973

He never existed, anon.

>> No.22689978

>>22689954
His history plays support Elizabeth's claim to the throne, just as Spenser's work did, for example.
People did get mad by literature. There are a couple controversies surrounding certain works (not necessarily Shakespeare's) you can read about. I once read Wyatt was imprisoned by Whoso list to hunt.

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>>22689973
This

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>>22689973
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>>22691260
not first post but easily best post

>> No.22691364

>>22689954
Thats what the pseudonym is for you retard.