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In reply to the discussion: Why Is So Much of What We Call "History" Wrong? [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(104,364 posts)"Emotion often beats fact"
"Emotional attachment to legend blocks all evidence to the contrary."
"The Shakespeare myth is very emotional and political."
I really think you need to look in the mirror about this. The idea that William Shakespeare didn't write the vast majority of the Shakespeare plays (a case can be made for co-authorship of bits) is an emotion-only argument - if you like conspiracies, it's romantic, or thrilling. But you have to ignore the actual facts (publication of many during his lifetime, publication of the rest not long after his death (and after the monument in the Stratford church was put up)), in favour of personal subjective feelings - that you feel someone who hadn't been to Oxford or Cambridge couldn't have written the plays, that you feel someone from a richer family would have had to write them, but also spend their time constructing an elaborate smokescreen, and so on.
I can't see what lawyers have got to do with this. They're not historians, or scientists. I'd like to see your statistics for "many lawyers study Shakespeare as undergrads and nearly all of them balk at the myth" - link, please, since you say you're keen on facts. But it seems a bit insulting to lawyers unless you can back it up.
I'll note, again, that your original claim was that the grave is empty - and that the 2016 scan showed that. That was a simple untruth. It's not the way to start a thread on how truth ought to be an essential part of history. It is the way to trash your own reputation.
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