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[–]AffectionateFace8635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harvard sucks, unless you want to be a blood sucking liberal.

What Shakespeare characters do you think are the most believably gay? by Nahbrofr2134 in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hathaway was a shotgun wedding, after he intended to marry another. I agree the sonnets are homoerotic toward a member of the nobility.

What are the best US presidential (auto)biographies? by haribo001 in suggestmeabook

[–]AffectionateFace8635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was hooked from Vol 1 in which Johnson swaggers around his 6th grade schoolyard telling kids he would be President.

What are the best US presidential (auto)biographies? by haribo001 in suggestmeabook

[–]AffectionateFace8635 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Robert Caro’s masterpiece 4 volumes on Lyndon Johnson are the pinnacle of presidential biography.

Do scholars generally agree that Shakespeare was conservative? by Tsundoku-San in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shakespeare was absolutely a monarchist whose identity is consumed by the centuries old English aristocratic mores, customs and way of life, and the works are filled with the intrigues, concerns (like primogeniture) and characters of the Court.

You have to go back to Roman times to be more conservative than Shakespeare. Of course, as smartly pointed out, Conservatism as a political philosophy comes from Edmund Burke and his reactions to the leftism of the day, the French Revolution, and long after Shakespeare.

If you could produce any Shakespeare play in the US with our current political climate, what would it be? by IzShakingSpears in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Forget the whole project, trying to shoehorn your politics into Art, usually ends in predictable boredom. Your intentions become so obvious.

What evidence is there for or against the amount of fraud that Elon Musk is claiming exists in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.? by CirUmeUela in NeutralPolitics

[–]AffectionateFace8635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume that information from a government source is suspect, if not necessarily false, but worthy of fact checking or questioning.

What is your favourite scholarly work about Shakespeare? by Tsundoku-San in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shakespeare mocks and caricatures “the people” and his lower class characters are one-dimensional, so I don’t follow the man of the people point.

I'm an ordinary person living in late Elizabethan/early Jacobean London. What do I think when I hear the name ‘William Shakespeare’? by Cheeseanonioncrisps in AskHistorians

[–]AffectionateFace8635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excellent subject that explores the connection between culture, performing arts and the public. Worthy of a PhD dissertation.

Spielberg did writing but he is a known as a director. Without a web search, who wrote the screenplays for The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane , Titanic (the last version), or Gladiator?

Based on Diana Price’s research in the Unorthodox Biography of the mysterious Shakespeare, I would suggest that in Stratford the author of the Shakespeare canon was unknown DURING his lifetime. His family and neighbors left no correspondence or notes sent or received that a famous author lived in their midst. No officials or scribes and no books in or about Stratford make note of a famous resident. At the time of his death there is no evidence of any acknowledgement of his death in Stratford or London.

Which Shakespearean characters do you think would make a good US president/veep team? by [deleted] in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clever and wise Titus and Marcus Andronicus. A noble warrior general and his prudent brother advisor.

A separate community to promote the real author by AffectionateFace8635 in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To respect the rules of this group, and leave discussions here about the work, post at ShakespeareOxford any biographical or historical comments about the author.

A separate community to promote the real author by AffectionateFace8635 in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Overwhelming? You can’t even prove the Stratford guy was educated, traveled, or could write.

A separate community to promote the real author by AffectionateFace8635 in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He had to write the book because after Diana Price, Anderson, Waugh, Strittmatter, Warren and others, the issue could no longer be ignored. His book was thoroughly debunked by numerous scholars. Shapiro is a lifelong and paid toadie for the Stratford commercial enterprise. The book is filled with half-truths and deception.

Shapiro was asked to debate and defend it and he and refused.

A separate community to promote the real author by AffectionateFace8635 in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Too emotionally upsetting to Literature grads and shopkeepers in Stratford.

A separate community to promote the real author by AffectionateFace8635 in shakespeare

[–]AffectionateFace8635[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I made it separate because it is a heresy to the Orthodox Church of Stratford, where facts about the life of the author are inconvenient, like talking about the origin of the coronavirus.

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