Talk:William Shakespeare

Can I take out the Trivia section? Pointless and badly written...--Emkay 20:03, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

It could be written better (the reference to "your lit teacher" is silly), but I think it's interesting. DanH 20:04, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

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Someone put down *Austin Kenn XXIII (1991) under the Histories of Shakespeare. Exuse me, but Shakespeare didn't live quite that long. Is this some sort of long lost play? I took it out because I've never heard of it and I think it sounds like it's nonesense or even minor vandelism. -Additioner 15:18, 11 July 2007 (EDT)

I found out the person who put in this Austin Kenn XXIII play is a User called Clavicle. -Additioner 14:44, 29 August 2007 (EDT)

You were quite write to do so. It is not one of his histories. The user has already been blocked for something else. Bohdan 15:01, 29 August 2007 (EDT)

Inaccuracies

i would like to point out a few Inaccuracies in the article for example:
there is no known set date for when Romeo and Juliet was written all is known is when i would have been written.
As all information need Reference and Certification i beleive this article and many others should be cheched though i don't have the time to do this so i was hopping that other helpful internet users of this site might be willing to help me undertake this task.

This article is in need of major re-working

I'll try to work on it in the next week or so, but if anyone else would like to attempt to apply some order to this article, I would appreciate it. --SharonW 14:23, 29 July 2011 (EDT)

Unclear sentence

Andy: First, let me assure you that I'm not an expert on Shakespeare, and this is just a sentence structure issue. I have no "dog in this fight"; you know me well enough to know what "fights" I have "dogs" in.

This is about two things that were unclear in your edit of a few hours ago. In "... which implies that homosexuality is an aberrant form ...", what implies this? The woman turning into a man (pretty racy for the 17th century!), or the view that Shakespeare was presenting? But I see that you just fixed that.

But the other thing is "... has fallen in love with was originally a woman turned into a man ...". I don't know how to fix this. Did you mean "has fallen in love with someone who was originally a woman, turned into a man"?

SamHB (talk) 15:01, 4 August 2019 (EDT)

In Shakespeare's time, homosexuals were "catamites" and "sodomites" or, more politely, "had a love like that of David and Jonathon." Surely Shakespeare would have been aware that Plato had described Achilles and Patroclus as lovers. Shakespeare studied the lives of the English kings, so it is likely that he was familiar with the stories about William Rufus, Edward I and Piers Gaveston, Edward II and Hugh Despenser, etc. Merchant of Venice has all those cross dressing jokes, which are funny because they stop just short of addressing homosexuality directly. PeterKa (talk) 18:00, 4 August 2019 (EDT)