your opinion on anti stratfordians pls
May. 28th, 2020 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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HAHAHAHA
This one will be short ish. I’ll bullet-point it.
- It’s almost all fundamentally classist. It implies no one who’s not wealthy/noble could’ve created something that beautiful or what have you. It assumes no one could have had enough education or life experience or… something, which they’ll never quite specify, which is restricted to the nobility, for the most part.
- It misunderstands the class/social position of merchants and makes Shakespeare sound like he was A Pauper when his family was pretty solidly upper-middle class.
- It misunderstands Early Modern education and what people actually learned re: [at least bits of] languages and literature especially.
- It’s all conspiracy theory but the people who think it was Marlowe are extra conspiracy-y for some reason lol
- They’re absolute assholes to interact with because they seem to be pretty universally pretentious dipshits who mansplain everything (“well I BET you didn’t KNOW this, BUT—“)
I think @ dukeofbookingham said it was the Shakespeare equivalent of being a Republican? That’s absolutely true. That’s it.
HAHAHAHA
This one will be short ish. I’ll bullet-point it.
- It’s almost all fundamentally classist. It implies no one who’s not wealthy/noble could’ve created something that beautiful or what have you. It assumes no one could have had enough education or life experience or… something, which they’ll never quite specify, which is restricted to the nobility, for the most part.
- It misunderstands the class/social position of merchants and makes Shakespeare sound like he was A Pauper when his family was pretty solidly upper-middle class.
- It misunderstands Early Modern education and what people actually learned re: [at least bits of] languages and literature especially.
- It’s all conspiracy theory but the people who think it was Marlowe are extra conspiracy-y for some reason lol
- They’re absolute assholes to interact with because they seem to be pretty universally pretentious dipshits who mansplain everything (“well I BET you didn’t KNOW this, BUT—“)
I think @ dukeofbookingham said it was the Shakespeare equivalent of being a Republican? That’s absolutely true. That’s it.
