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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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Playwright William Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential writers in the English language, and his plays have been read or performed millions of times around the world. He was also quite prolific: Between about 1590 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more. Yet for more than a century various researchers known collectively as anti-Stratfordians have argued that Shakespeare didn't actually write some -- or all -- of his work.
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0:00.0 | Hey, did you guys ever hear about this Willie Shakes dude? |
0:04.7 | Kind of a big deal. They teach him in high school. |
0:08.0 | So you know he's important. |
0:09.6 | Willie Triple Shake. That's what I remember of him. Yum. The old Triple Shake that's what I remember of him. The old Triple Shake. Yeah because it's so |
0:16.2 | big and you gotta shake it three times. Old two-hand Shakespeare. You don't want to get |
0:20.8 | anything on the pantaloons. Right, right. |
0:24.0 | The playwright, William Shakespeare, is sort of famous in English |
0:31.0 | because he is considered to be one of the most influential authors in human |
0:38.2 | history. He's also cartoonishly prolific. Between about 1590 and 1613 he wrote something |
0:48.6 | like 37 different plays he collabered. Or did he? Or was it Francis Bacon, right? Or other people. Or was it a brand name, right? The same way that, you know, you go into an airport and you will see |
1:05.6 | paperbacks written by purportedly the same author. Oh wait are we talking about |
1:11.5 | Bill Shakespeare? |
1:12.6 | Oh, you know Bill, Billy, Billy, Willie, you know. |
1:16.0 | What is that from? |
1:17.0 | What's that from? |
1:18.0 | He's a regular Bill Shakespeare. |
1:19.8 | That's like a line that lives in my head somewhere. |
1:22.1 | Sounds like some Will Farrell or Adam Sandler, Comadee. |
1:26.0 | He basically invented comedy too, by the way. |
1:28.4 | Old Billy Shakes. |
1:29.6 | Oh, yeah, I guess, I always thought that the first human who invented comedy was the person in a survival situation who lived when someone else died. |
1:42.0 | Seinfeld? |
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