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10 Nov 05:45am

Filed under: Anonymous, History, Roland Emmerich, Shakespeare, Theatre

My name’s Lucy and I’m a Stratfordian. Okay, not really. That’s just a fancy way of saying that I think William Shakespeare was real.

To believe or not to believe, that is the question. Photo: Geoff King.

That even though he was born to a middle class family, went to the local school and never set foot in a university - that he wrote every single one of his approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems, with an unrivalled creativity, a wicked sense of humour and a serious passion for documenting the world around him.

It means that I think Shakespeare’s humble beginnings did not define him. That his quick wit drove his talent and his natural curiosity made him a star.

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stephen says:

09:39pm | 10/11/11

Lots of commoners are very clever, and that some query Shakespeare’s credentials, is not to, as a snob might, imply that only an educated man - officially, that is - can have written S’s Opus. The question is not one that a Sociologist might ponder, or even a theorist. Rather,… Read more »
Steve Putnam says:

06:21pm | 10/11/11

Shakespeare is the most read, most acted, most quoted, most translated and most taught in schools writer of them all. Not reading him does make you less cultured in the same way as not having heard Mozart’s music or not having seen Rembrandt’s painting does. I would say the same… Read more »

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