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Funny -- I just got through reading this: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-shakespeare-emilia-bassano/588076/ https://www.theatlantic

• goto11 7y ago
  Rather dubious line of reasoning though: Shakespeare writes women well, so he must have been a woman. Sure, but he also writes young men, old men, kings, drunkards, commoners, jews, moors and wizards very well. Maybe he was just a great writer?
  • ScottBurson 7y ago
    It's not just that; it's also the absence of contemporaneous accounts of him actually writing anything. Doesn't it seem odd that he wasn't celebrated as a writer during his lifetime?
    • goto11 7y ago
      We don't have a lot of evidence about the details of Shakespeare life, which is not really surprising give the time period. And the article actually acknowledges with a few quotes that he was celebrated. I'm very skeptical about arguments based on what evidence "should" exist for historical events. Why is is weird or surprising we don't have any plays in Shakespeare own handwriting? It is quite possible that Shakespeare didn't write much down himself and the manuscript have have was written down by someone else, e.g. some of his actors.