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Was Shakespeare a hack?

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>> No.993797

he was a jew
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>> No.993798

Is trolling an art? Oh, no, not anymore.

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>> No.993810

>>993798
>an
You done did it wrong.

But seriously, I've heard stuff over the years about him not being a good writer at all, to claims that he didn't even write some of his own stuff.
Do these claims hold any water?

>> No.993818

>>993810
Read his plays, form your own opinions.

The only people who seriously think he was just a name are tinfoil hatters.

>> No.993819

>>993810
I've heard claims as wild as that there was a society of men all writing under the name of Shakespeare. And that this is the same society of men popularizing him, and keeping old white dead men at the top of the western canon. They're probably Nazis or something. Old Nazi time travelers.
Anyways, what does it matter? The works are great.

>> No.993829

>>993810
None of them are conclusive and it doesn't matter much anyways. What we call William Shakespeare's works will always be known as such, whether or not somebody named Francis wrote them.

>> No.994034

He was kind of a hack, but also kind of fucking great. Surprise, they aren't mutually incompatible.