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Get this: Will writes an Italian throw down for swords, and he thinks he's gangsta...
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)I think so
And by the way: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Will is very sensitive about others getting credit for his work.
And as far as De Vere goes, supporters ignore the fact that while the is little direct evidence that Shakespeare wrote the plays, there is NO evidence that De Vere wrote them at all.
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Nonetheless, there are a lot of questions re the subject of authorship.
Fascinating, really
Aristus
(66,310 posts)Someone once remarked about the lack of documentary evidence for Shakespeare's authorship: "If, in four hundred years all that remained of you were a few parking tickets and some receipts, would that negate the things you had done with your life?"
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)One of my favorite quotes, and there are many, is:
Lord, what fools these mortals be
Aristus
(66,310 posts)It's almost as if Will was predicting his own immortality...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,571 posts)What on earth is an Italian throw down?
I've never heard of such a thing...
Aristus
(66,310 posts)What with all the moon, spoon, lovey-dovey impressions people have of the play, it's actually very violent...
Will is off at the other end of the bar, or he'd say 'hi'. I'll try to get his attention.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,571 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)Have a drink w'me while I tickle yer fancy!"
Um... I think he likes it, I_T_W...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I don't believe that was my fancy he was attempting to tickle.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)Go to!" should get him to back off...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Will is na a gentleman tonight.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)No poetry tonight. No Sonnets. He's trying to brainstorm a subject for tomorrow's WSTFTD. No luck yet.
Women are a distraction...
And you are very...um...distracting, I_T_W...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)When a sheik has many wives it's called a harem ...
Would it be called a himem if a woman has more than one man in her life ?http://missamycakes.com/2013/11/26/why-every-girl-needs-a-man-harem/
Aristus
(66,310 posts)I can be Intellectual Guy, Doctor Guy and Political Guy all in one!...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Are you talented working with tools ? Can you build things ?
Aristus
(66,310 posts)The number of books I've got? Necessary!
Not so good with cars, but shelves? I'm there.
I was a tank crewman in the Army, so I know my way around a tool box...
panader0
(25,816 posts)"And de woman feeling sexy, wha she go do, and de man is feelin sleepy, what she go do?"
I wish someone would teach me how to post videos. All I ever get is the wriiten link.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)I'm still furious with you for stiffing your wife in the will. Why couldn't you leave her more than a bed, precious as those were in your day? Sounds rather churlish to me.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)without a specific bequest in the will.
Will's mention of the second-best bed (the one they would have slept in, the best bed being reserved for guests) may have been a gesture of affection.
I'm not saying Will was a model husband, but he did give Anne the comfortable life of a country gentlewoman...
hermetic
(8,308 posts)Is this really what it's all about?
Aristus
(66,310 posts)but thou'rt still four lines short of a sonnet."
hermetic
(8,308 posts)I saw it on FB yesterday and had to save it for you. And watch that "mate" stuff. That's no way to address a lady.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)hermetic
(8,308 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Have any advice for someone that sees the light at the end of the tunnel?