Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 18, 2012

The plays of “Shakespeare” were really written by Edward de Vere.

i always believed that the universe was made on October 25, 1937 at 10:58am, so by that logic god wrote shakespear! and if anyone says she didn’t … well pooy on them

I believe this is the definitive response to that question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Y9CJDbLxQ

Uhmmmmmmmm……Bacon………………

I thought it was Kevin Bacon.

All Shakespeare’s plays were really written by a moose named Bullwinkle.

Or was it the other way around?

Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by another man by the same name.

I wonder when Jef’s going to tell us about deVere, or does he have to wait until he has worn out all of his bacon lines.

BTW, I recently found the Canadians refer to “Canadian bacon” as “pea-meal bacon” – although it’s usually coated with corn-meal these days.

I don’t care who wrote them, I’m just glad they were writ!

I will go to my grave believing and maintaining that William Shakespeare wrote the plays of William Shakespeare. It can’t be proven, but it can’t be disproven. It has some implausibilities, but it is the least implausible of a multitude of implausible scenarios.

chireef: “…god wrote shakespear.”

Only “Hamlet”, since the greatest implausibility of all is that a work of such monumental perfection and scope could have been the product of mere human endeavor. But God chose William Shakespeare as His vessel for it.

Of course, Voltaire wrote “The Tragedy of Hamlet is a coarse and barbarous piece of work that would not be accepted by the basest rabble in France or Italy. One would imagine it was the fruit of the imagination of a drunken savage.” I don’t know whether Voltaire was imagining Shakespeare or God as the drunken savage, but then again Voltaire and God never had anything good to say about one another.

Actually, Shakespeare overacted so badly that his fellow players frequently dismissed him as a ham, which got him confused with Viscount St. Alban because the English terms for various cuts of cured pork were still in the process of being standardized at the time.

I have the impression that the question of who you believe wrote ’Shakespeare’s plays’ is quite politically charged, especially in the UK. It seems to me that Oxfordians and the like tend to be Old Tories who can’t believe that a mere commoner could have written, say, the court scenes with such verisimilitude, while the most emotional Shakespeareans are Marxists or others with a strong republican (note the small ‘r’) bent who can’t believe that an effete aristocrat could portray hoi polloi with such sensitivity.

One of my drama teachers stated that, “Either Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, or someone calling him/herself Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.” The important thing was to STUDY the plays for what one can get out of them. Case closed.

I thought Lee Harvey Oswald wrote all those plays. At least that’s what Jim Garrison said. Or was that Kevin Costner, Oliver Stone or Elvis Presley? Too many conspiracies, too little time.

Why did they censor my dissertation on Canadian bacon? My point was that there are two types of bacon in Canada: back bacon (aka Canadian bacon, even though most comes from polluting agribusiness in North Carolina) which is the longesimus dorsai muscle; and side bacon (the striped kind) which is intercostal muscles and fat – when it isn’t compressed and dyed turkey scraps.

Shakespeare was written by a swath of monkeys on Elizabethan typewriters.

Iambic pentameter…..