Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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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	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.7	You can turn back now, or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:24.1	Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:26.4	Our friend Noel is on some adventures as we record today. They call me Ben.
0:31.2	We are joined with our guest super producer Ramsey Ramjams Yunt.
0:37.3	So say hello to him when you get the chance.
0:40.8	Most importantly, let's talk about you. You are here. You are you.
0:44.0	That makes this stuff. They don't want you to know.
0:46.7	I really thought he was talking about me that time because he looked right at me when he said it.
0:50.4	The show would be nothing without you, man. As numerous Apple music or Apple podcasts
0:58.8	reviews have assured us. Oh really? Well, I don't know if that's true, but I agree with it.
1:03.3	Well, you know what? None of us would be who we are today if we didn't have a certain playwright.
1:08.9	A man that we all call back to. That we all imagine as perhaps the father of plays.
1:15.6	The father of plays. At least when I was growing up, I always imagine him as like the one from which
1:24.2	all other plays that I was reading kind of sprung from or at least were heavily influenced by.
1:30.7	He's the most well known. That's that's a fact. We are talking a fellow conspiracy
1:36.4	realist about Shakespeare, William Shakespeare from Stratford on Avon. Do you, did you ever
1:43.1	act in Shakespearean production? I was never in a full-on production. I did many a scene.
1:50.0	Yes. My favorite I would have to say came from the tempest and it included just a line that
1:57.2	has really influenced my whole life, I think. What is it? I might paraphrase here, but it is
2:03.6	hell is empty and all the devils are here or something to this effect because all the devils are here.
2:08.6	I don't remember exactly his language, but I know the paraphrase is enough to convince
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