Comments by "Caius Martius Coriolanus" (@Jeffhowardmeade) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. No. Neither did Shakespeare. Imagine his surprise!
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  2. I never considered that writers of color needed White writers excluded in order to have a shot.
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  3. Well, Shakespeare's landlord was a maker of lace collars, so he probably got the friends and family discount. I agree with you, though. It's Overbury.
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  4. His plots weren't slightly borrowed. He copied them wholesale. Nearly every last one of them. The genius of Shakespeare isn't in the stories, but in the language he uses to convey them.
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  5. ​ @Tolstoy111 Ironically, Tolstoy hated Shakespeare.
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  6. And comedy. The guy was a total stiff. I would be surprised if he could WATCH Falstaff, let alone create him.
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  7. Shakespeare's signatures are only "illegible" to you because you can't read 16th Century handwriting. I can. They look just fine.
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  8. No. Anti-Strat are whacky. For starters, they ask questions like "How could a guy who was LITERALLY a servant to the king know so much about Court?" Then not be able to point to anything in the works which demonstrates insider knowledge. They ask "how can he know about history?" when his plays come straight from popular history books of the day. "Politics, economics, natural philosophy?" Where, where, and where? These were plays written for the public stage, and Shakespeare is going to fill them up with things nobody will get? Right.
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  9. William Shakespeare.
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  10. Sorry to be so late. From Wikipedia: "The Chesterfield portrait, dated 1660–1670, possibly painted by the Dutch painter Pieter Borsseler, who worked in England in the second half of the 17th century. Its title derives from the fact that it was owned by the Earl of Chesterfield. It is generally assumed to be based on the Chandos portrait, which is evidence that the Chandos was accepted as a depiction of Shakespeare within living memory of the writer."
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  11. Sad commentary on our times. "Wassup y'all" is followed by an offer by YouTube to "translate to English".
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  12. Non ita difficile.
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  13. Mark Twain thought it was Francis Bacon. Freud ended up believing Shakespeare was a Frenchman named Jacques-Pierre. Prince Philip thought it was Henry Neville. Neither Charles Dickens nor Orson Wells doubted Shakespeare. Charlie Chaplin thought it was the EARL of Oxford. So you got one right.
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