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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:47 am
People have been asking this for centuries. there are several different books about it. do you think the plays are by Shakespeare, or someone else? And if someone else, any idea who? I've heard Christopher Marlowe is a good suspect as the writer, if Shakespeare didn't do it.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:38 am
I've anaylsised a lot Shakespeare over high school and college (both play and poems) and I would say that yes he did write his plays, however the ideas for all his plays are definitely not his. The only play he ever wrote that does not have characteristics of an existing story is The Tempest.
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WickedElphie Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:37 am
I think the biggest reason people suspect Shakespeare's plays aren't really Shakespeare's is because many of his plays were never permanently written down, and the actors of his plays had to sit down together and write down the lines they had memorized after Shakespeare died. This has caused some minor inconsistencies that have led to doubting Shakespeare's work.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:24 pm
I honestly believe that he wrote them. The styles of the pieces are overall consistent - in my limited, non-specialist opinion. But I do believe that none of the starting ideas were his. Which isn't to say he plagiarized, but more borrowed story lines and adapted them to his artistic ideas of what the scripts should look like.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:57 am
Keep in mind he had the equivelant of an 8th grade education.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:04 pm
I just ran over a book yesterday suggesting that Shakespeare may have been the Earl of Someplace under an assumed name.
My opinion is that it really doesn't matter. Shakespeare's name is so deeply imbedded in history, nobody's findings at this point will change anybody's mind.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:10 am
I'd like to keep believing he wrote the plays, but I'm reading a book called Interred With Their Bones (yes, it's fictional) but it brings up a good point, and there's some truth in it. This kind of thing makes you think. Like, think about it, how much do we know about William Shakespear himself? I'd like to research farther into that.
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:52 pm
I beleive that christopher marlowe might have helped him out, but I don't think shakespeare copied his work and said that he wrote it. I read some stuff about shakespeare, hera re siome facts:
1. my typing sucks, deal with it.
2. he may have been a secret catholic in staunt protestant elizebethan england.
3. he married a very oldwoman for his thime period (26 yrs. old)
4. he had a set of twins, but left them with their mother because he hated his marriage, he spent most of his time in london.
5.he was a taurus, i've heard april 23rd and 26th for his birthdate.
6. his body hasnever been moved from it's original intombment in his hometown church because he wrote a curse to put on his grave. moving bodies out of their original burial places was quite common in elizebethan england.
7. he was an actor before he became a playwright
8. his friend christopher marlowe died in a bar fight.
9. he had a renaissancemullet, balding serious playwright in the front, bob partyin' haircut in the back.
10. he was born into amiddle class family.
and seriously, christopher marlowe did die in a bar fight, I didn't make that up, he was stabbed by a drunken man, some think that the man could have been a rival of his.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:55 pm
iFeelNoPain Keep in mind he had the equivelant of an 8th grade education. True. But even the greatest talents don't have to be that well cultivated; many great artists and people of history rose from the bottom of the ladder after all.
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