great name for your blog!

Don't doubt, there is no reason. If there was a conspiracy then Shakespeare of Stratford must have been at the centre of it. He is no different than all the other writers and players of the time. Also in regard to their available biographies.

Sh for some reason always gets seen through the lens that we know NOW as Shakespeare. He wasn't that. His contemporaries knew and worked with the same player, playwright, and poet, as he presumably said he was, from Stratford. For him not to be Shakespeare and for no-one to clue in boggles my senses!

Ok his plays start off rough and imitative and versified quite simply in rhyming couplets and all the rhetorical tricks of the trade. When he hits his histories he starts to find his voice and the comedies mature from comedy of errors up to twelfth night.

Then the richer later history-tragedies Henry Fifth and Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra segue into full-blown tragedy with Hamlet and Macbeth with the verse slowly being mastered. Leading up to his final masterpieces King Lear, The Tempest, A WInter's Tale.

This admittedly personal timeline illustrates the change in style this one writer had to undergo. Do an experiment and put comedy of errors next to winter's tale and read a few passages from each. The one is early and searching; the other is late and breaking new ground.

Sh whoever he was couldn't have done it on his own. He needed his contemporaries for the things they were writing about for him to choose topics and go with the flow of that moment. Sh was the only one in the right place to carry any conspiracy out. but why would he? Who benefits?

sorry blabbing on.

best advice for shakespeare is to read him and read him aloud. with friends and enthusiasts for acting and doing and thinking about thinking and language and being open to be moved by words, dead words.

peace out,

Will

Then a weird period where

If there was this magus manipulating the Stratford guy, why? What was stopping him (or her i.e. the magus) from doing it the way every other writer for the public theatre was doing? And the same guy that became sharer in the Lord Chamberlain's later King's Men Acting Company. This guy had for some reason such as blackmail, physical co-ersion, or profit, to go along with this deception.

The Stratford guy we know acquired Gentleman status; was a sharer in the Globe Theatre; bought the biggest house in the centre of Stratford, owned land and property and orchards in the Stratford area; and whose direct family contained a just younger brother who was a haberdasher (think costumes) and could write his own name, a younger brother also an actor in London, two daughters of seemingly opposite characters, twins of his own a boy and a girl, his son dying at age 6. A father who had been Chief Alderman ie Mayor of Stratford when he was a boy.