WAB
Veteran Member
Whoever wrote Shakespeare was without doubt a genius, Amyrich.
I always ignored the authorship question (until this thread was posted), never bothering to pay it any real attention, and I suspect that's what most people do, and always have done. But while I am not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the real author, I now have doubts about the Stratford man, based on what I've looked into so far. This subject has grabbed hold of me at a good time, right when I needed something to think about and dig into.
I consider (and boy oh boy I am certainly not the first) that the writings attributed to William Shakespeare constitute the greatest contribution to English literature to date. In fact, I don't believe anyone else comes close.
Where I differ from some others is that I do not believe that the primary reason Shakespeare stands so far above even the greatest writers in English is that he was the greatest English dramatist (he may have been) or that he was, as people have written, somehow more in tune with human behavior and what drives that behavior than others, or that he had any special insights into humanity that others did not have, although in all of that he did certainly excel. I believe that the real reason Shakespeare is thought by many to be the greatest writer in the English language is because he was, and still is, the greatest poet in the English language.
I always ignored the authorship question (until this thread was posted), never bothering to pay it any real attention, and I suspect that's what most people do, and always have done. But while I am not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the real author, I now have doubts about the Stratford man, based on what I've looked into so far. This subject has grabbed hold of me at a good time, right when I needed something to think about and dig into.
I consider (and boy oh boy I am certainly not the first) that the writings attributed to William Shakespeare constitute the greatest contribution to English literature to date. In fact, I don't believe anyone else comes close.
Where I differ from some others is that I do not believe that the primary reason Shakespeare stands so far above even the greatest writers in English is that he was the greatest English dramatist (he may have been) or that he was, as people have written, somehow more in tune with human behavior and what drives that behavior than others, or that he had any special insights into humanity that others did not have, although in all of that he did certainly excel. I believe that the real reason Shakespeare is thought by many to be the greatest writer in the English language is because he was, and still is, the greatest poet in the English language.