william shakespeare sick thoughts

The Heart of the Question

For Joe, the heart of the Shakespeare question is: where did the playwright’s knowledge come from?

Will from Stratford abandoned his education after grammar school. While still in his teens, he had a shotgun marriage and two children - then he abandoned his family. Will Shakspur then appears in London, and to the surprise of all history, turns out to be the most educated writer who ever lived.

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Fred Gooltz
Fred Gooltz
obsessions: william shakespeare, Film Noir/Detective Mysteries, Amadeus, Theatre, Queen of England
filed under: outtakes
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Will Shakespeare’s Identity Problem

Joe Plummer is obsessed with the Shakespeare controversy

What if Shakespeare didn’t write Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, or any of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare? The question gets asked more than you might think. And it has been asked for hundreds of years. Depending on who you ask, the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy is either the biggest cover-up of the last 500 years, the most epic literary mystery ever, or maybe just a bit of intrigue you never knew you were missing. Watch as IAS user Joe Plummer geeks out about it.

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Fred Gooltz
Fred Gooltz
obsessions: william shakespeare, Theatre, Hamlet, Theatre
filed under: premiere
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