Was William Shakespeare a real person?
He was a horse.
>>1120742
In the future this what will be taught in all schools around the world. Even posting it as a joke is bad.
>>1120731
Was tupac a real person?
>>1120731
In case this isn't bait: the scholarly concensus is that William Shakespeare was indeed a real person who wrote the plays attributed to him. Claims that Shakespeare didn't exist, or he took credit for someone else's work, or he was really Christopher Marlowe, are generally regarded as fringe theories.
>>1120731
Was "Many Pens" one person? Is that your question?
>>1120789
>Christopher Marlowe
One of the low points in the history of congress was when a sitting US representative on the HUAC asked if Marlowe was a communist.
>>1121002
>look this up
>it happened
Liberal democracy was a mistake.
>>1121105
But we didn't even get to that time when a congressman asked an admiral if the large number of US troops on Guam would cause the island to tip over and capsize!
Anti-Stratfordians have about the same amount of credibility in the literature faculties of the world as flat-Earthers do in the scientific community
>>1120731
I've been under the assumption that Shakespeare was not an actual person, but rather a small literary group who wrote under the pen name Shakespeare.
Marlowe wrote Shakespeare
>>1121694
>8,000 marines and their families
>Large numbers.
And, to be fair, Admiral Willard had this "You cannot possibly be that stupid" expression on his face when he grasped what Representative Johnson was getting at.
>>1120731
More real than jesus
>>1120731
WE WUZ KANG EDITION
>>1124740
Fack off mate,
>Homer was not a real person
>Shakespeare was not a real person
>Ossian was not a real person
So what
>Nietzche was not a real person
>Corneille was not a real person
>Dostoievsky was not a real person
People just cannot imagine a genius who can produce a lot of masterpiece because it's uncommon in our society.
>>1124756
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Testimonium_Flavianum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2014/09/04/an-atheists-defense-of-the-historicity-of-jesus/
>"He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees"
- Bart Ehrman
>"There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more.
- Michael Grant
>"In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.
- Richard Burridge
>>1124740
your assumption is false though, this meme started because elitist snobs didn't want to believe Shakespeare existed because he wasn't some noble or great identity
>>1120731
>Was William Shakespeare a real person?
Yes, SHE was a black woman.
>William Shakespeare
More like Willm Shakspr or whatever retarded spelling he used. Never William Shakespeare. So, in answer to your question, no.
Actual historians hate this theory as William Shakespeare is the Elizabethan playwright we know the MOST about.
>>1125569
And they all mean William Shakespeare, no matter the nonstandardised spelling.
Yes he was a black-Irish-muslim-communist lady of the earl of Somerset's court. FUN FACT: His real name was Francis Bacon.
>>1124740
you're wrong though
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