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In reply to the discussion: Having a few cold ones with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything. [View all]Aristus
(66,481 posts)16. Oh, now you've done it!
He just threw his tankard across the tavern!
Will has answered this before, and his responses are in my journal.
It was pretty common in Will's time for playwright's to collaborate on their material. Will didn't like to write plays 'by committee', so he usually wrote alone. He did help out John Fletcher on The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VIII, and Vortigern, "And the stupid sod lost the manuscript!" Will adds.
But Will wrote all the plays attributed to him. He had quite an exceptional education at the Stratford Grammar School. The curriculum would challenge a modern college student.
And as far as them needing a highly intelligent, educated noble to write the plays? Please.
Will says: "That's a larf. Look at English nobles today!"
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Ask him if he really wrote all those plays, or if he bought a few or had ghostwriters.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
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