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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The question of Shakespeare's authorship has been around since at least the mid-1800s. Is there anything to it? In this classic episode, we dig in to this dense topic to find out.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.8

Hey guys, it's me, Josh.

0:06.7

And for this week's Select, I've chosen our 2022 episode on Shakespeare and whether he actually

0:12.9

wrote all that stuff, or if there even was a Shakespeare.

0:16.3

This episode is actually possibly my favorite episode of all time,

0:21.6

because I knew nothing about this, and I learned a bunch of stuff,

0:24.9

and I found it really interesting, and it was fun, really fun,

0:28.7

to kind of turn around and explain it to all of you.

0:31.5

So I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I always have every time I hear it about Shakespeare.

0:44.0

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:53.6

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and Chuck's on the line. Jerry's here, too, and welcome to the podcast.

0:55.4

I'm Josh, and Chuck's on the line.

0:57.1

Jerry's here, too, and we're about to get jiggy with it about Shakespeare.

1:03.6

Can I caveat this out of the gate?

1:06.7

I guess.

1:08.7

So the more we dug into this, you know, I was an English major.

1:12.7

We talked very briefly when I was in college about Shakespeare's authorship.

1:16.3

Right.

1:16.8

And I thought, hey, this would be a fun little semi-easy episode.

1:22.7

And the more we dug into it, the more this onion unfolded.

1:29.6

It's quite an onion.

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