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Celebrate Shakespeare in his 400th year
By David Cameron - This year’s 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who – to borrow from his own description of Julius Caesar – “doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHappy New Year Mrs Think.
Jan 05th, 2016 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another year over and the Falkland Islands remain firmly under British control.
Kirchner gone for the foreseeable future and all is well.
I know you enjoy a bit of Shakespeare.
@1. It doesn't have that much intelligence!
Jan 05th, 2016 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How Shakespeare went from earning a few pounds a year as an actor to one of the wealthiest of the merchant class in England overnight has never been properly explained. Nor has it ever been credibly explained how a man of limited education came to possess intimate knowledge of Papal laws, Italy, Venice, Europe, law in general, advanced medicine, advanced science, politics, and history, including an unheralded knowledge of the English language, Italian, French and especially Latin.
Jan 05th, 2016 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of the works attributed to Shakespeare--comprising of some 884,000 words contained in 34,896 lines and spoken by 1,211 characters--33% were histories of immense and unprecedented historical research, 32% were comedies, 29% were tragedies, 4% were poems and 2% were sonnets.
If Shakespeare truly was the author, then he had to have handwritten every last word--as typewriters did not exist. To put this massive undertaking into perspective--if Shakespeare made not one single mistake on any page, nor re-wrote a single line of dialogue, nor scene, then he would have to had written a minimum of one page per day for fifteen years (1598-1613) to complete this body of work. Given, no author in history has written even half as much without making mistakes, Shakespeare then must have written well over 15,000 hand written pages --yet not one single page has ever been found--an unbelievable and unprecedented anomoly that defies all logic It appears that Shakespeare went out of his way to create new and unusual words. Given the plays were supposed to be aimed at commercial venture, it would have been a huge commercial risk to introduce so many new words to a paying audience -- and must have alienated 99% of them given they could not possible have understood what they were hearing. So how could The Globe and the plays of Shakespeare possibly have been a financial success?
Shakespeare
Jan 05th, 2016 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0to be or not to be,
to be=British,
and not to be argentine,
just saying like..
@3
Jan 06th, 2016 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps Shakespeare was a 'paragon' of genius, of which you are obviously not?
Indeed, the above post is not even your your own work.... it appears you have directly plagiarised a dubious article found at http://one-evil.org/content/people_16c_shakespeare.html
So you are using fraud to accuse another, far greater person, of, ummm..... fraud?
Congratulations, you win today's prize for the weakest post on the internet.
What does one expect from an argy...
Jan 06th, 2016 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0pmsl http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows//blog/2011/10/did-shakespeare-really-write-his-plays-a-few-theories-examined
Jan 06th, 2016 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3: What do you mean, “without making mistakes”? He never wrote his name the same way twice. Spelling was arbitrary at the time, all he had to do was get the idea down and spelling took a back seat.
Jan 06th, 2016 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you read Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales”? In ME? Even the English struggle with pronunciation and the grammar. Similarly, Beowulf, in OE is remarkably difficult to read, unless you do it out loud and even then, although you might get the feeling you should understand it, because it is a mixture of Germanic tongues, it is very hard to fully grasp. But I digress.
It is perfectly feasible that Shakespeare wrote everything attributed to him. It is also possible the Marlowe may have rewritten some of his output, but the consistency in his style is evident throughout.
How much Shakespeare have you read?
If 3@ is correct, all he/she has to do, is Prove it, simple is it not.
Jan 07th, 2016 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0looks like El Paragon has 'cut and run'.
Jan 10th, 2016 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wanker.
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