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16636717 No.16636717 [Reply] [Original]

what is /lit/'s thought on the Shakespeare authorship question?

>> No.16636725

>>16636717
I phrased this like a retard, should be:
what are /lit/'s thoughts on the Shakespearean authorship question?

>> No.16637014

>>16636717
He was a black trans-woman who hated cops

>> No.16637016

>>16636717
Retarded academic drivel. Eventually, it will ascribed to some illiterate moor whose ancestors swam across the ocean.

>> No.16637057

>>16637014
based

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16637066

>>16636717

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>>16636717
too too silly

>> No.16637075

>>16637066
>>>>shakeshafte

>> No.16637081

>>16636717
Shakespeare was the Oscar Wilde of his time.

>> No.16637085

>NOOOOOOOOOO IT'S LITERALLY HECKIN IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE MAN TO WRITE SO MANY MASTERPIECES
>same argument can literally be used for Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.

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16637088

>>16636717
A myth of the British Empire. The man wrote a few dozen sonnets and a few dozen plays at best. Can’t even call him a poet or a novelist, he was merely an entertainer.

>> No.16637100

>>16637088
francis bacon wrote both the entire works shakespeare and cervantes and founded the british empire

>> No.16637106

>>16637016
I hope you're joking. Virtually no one in academia takes this question seriously. Even at the most leftist institutions the works are attributed to William Shakespeare. Burn your strawman.

>> No.16637111

>>16636717
Doesn't matter, the fact the work exists is all I need.

>> No.16637132

>>16637106
the theories were all started off & have been propounded by scholars and schoolteachers

>> No.16637139

>>16637111
Based pragmatic Foucault reader

>> No.16637258

>>16637111
based