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theres something phoney about shakespeare
did this guy ever really exist ? or is he like Robin Hood a creation o f history.
all those poems all those plays and yet
what have we actulally got in manuscript ?
absolutely nothing
the only physical writing we have of shakespeare is his signiture on a will
that is all .
shakespeare the name .... the shaker of the spear
in greek myth athena was the shaker of the spear she was also the patron of literature
so even the name shakespeare looks like a bit of a historical creation.
maybe the plays are just a mass of historical work from the elixabethan age written b y many different authors ..... collected together and presented under the pseudenem william shakespeare.... maybe there was some genius who collected all this work and unified it into a whole.
a bit like Malory who served long years in prison and spent his time writing Morte dArthur which is obviously derived from numerous sources but his wonderful writing give s it a unity and a power