>not one surviving letter>not even one surviving piece of prose outside of the playsThis guy's a ghost.
Oh he was real. He had a son: Hamnet.
>>25171214Kek
or just autistic and really likes plays
>>25171200Destroyed on purpose.
>barges into English Renaissance>writes greatest literature>refuses to save testaments of his life>leaves
>>25171200He's Robin Goodfellow.
>More than 70 documents related to his personal and financial life exist, showing him as a typical middle-class man of his era: >Signatures: There are six surviving signatures on various legal documents, including his 1616 will and a 1612 deposition in a lawsuit (Bellott v. Mountjoy).>Property Deeds: Records show he purchased New Place, the second-largest house in Stratford, and bought significant amounts of land and tithes in the area.>The Last Will and Testament: His three-page will (1616) famously leaves his "second best bed" to his wife, Anne Hathaway, and mentions bequests to his fellow actors John Heminges and Richard Burbage.
>>25171270this is a big problem for meta-historiography: most people in history technically don't "exist" because there were virtually no historical records of them (archival silence/invisibility).
>>25171214gem
>>25171270>Anne Hathaway Huh....
>>25171200He stole most of the plays. Shit was like Thomas Edison and "his" patents
>>25171285Meta historiography is just historiography
sad we won't be able to cancel shakespeare
>>25171566If there's a Will, than Anne Hathaway.
>>25171586Always when I try to leave here, there's one post like this.
>>25171575Is James Brown meant to be saying the word “abusive!!!” here?
he's not even the greatest writer from England
>>25171569He stole the plots, but so did everyone back then. And really it's more accurate to say he stole the basic beats of the plots while inventing the rest.
>>25171696That would be Milton.
>>25171699His plots are the worst part too.
>>25171586lmfao
>>25171820This is disgusting
>>25171200No letter from Shakespeare, but there is a letter to Shakespeare from Richard Quiney asking for a loan of 30£ (IDK like $15,000? practically).
Never read Shakespeare and I have a 2 volume complete collection. Which play should I start with?
>>25173020Hamlet, as always, Hamlet. It’s all you need really but if you must go on, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Othello and Coriolanus are the top plays other than Hamlet. I quite like Cymbeline too.
>>25173020Do they have footnotes?You will need them
>>25171200Deep down, everyone knows he didn't write those plays. But what kind of fag runs around the school screaming "Santa isn't real, Santa isn't real!" ?
>>25173386You're right, it was some other man named Shakespeare.
>>25173386>Deep down, everyone knows he didn't write those plays.So who was it?
>>25171820>>25171903These are the kind of drawings non-binary teenage girls like and use as avatars online, playing Undertale and Five Nights at Freddy's
>>25173458Some other retard named Shakespeare.
>>25173804Hah you got me, I'm a fatassed 19yo white bitch.
>>25171200>This guy's a ghost.So, theoretically, I could have written the works of Shakespeare.
