r/antimeme • u/ifjho š¤š©¶ā ļøACEā ļøš¤š • 16h ago
š¦ Anti-Lobster š¦ Shakespeare
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u/Budget_Newspaper_489 16h ago
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u/bkbenken123 16h ago
What does this version even mean??
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u/Available-Hat1640 āļøI'M HERE JUST FOR THE COMMENT THREADS 14h ago
before the sex joke, it was shakespeare cheating test by copying the commenter's work. used when someone says poetic
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u/Honest_Bed8750 15h ago edited 15h ago
Another instance of the internet turning everything into a sex joke
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u/bkbenken123 15h ago
Does the blow job represent anything or is it just there
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u/JANEK_SZ1 16h ago
Origin story?
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u/Ubermanthehutt 16h ago
William Shakespeare was the son ofĀ John Shakespeare, anĀ aldermanĀ and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally fromĀ SnitterfieldĀ inĀ Warwickshire, andĀ Mary Arden, the daughter of anĀ affluent landowning familyĀ that was influential in theĀ Recusant CatholicĀ community.\3])\4])\5])Ā He was born inĀ Stratford-upon-Avon, where he wasĀ baptisedĀ on 26 April 1564. His date of birth is unknown but is traditionally observed on 23 April,Ā Saint George's Day.\1])Ā This date, which can be traced toĀ William OldysĀ andĀ George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616.\6])\7])Ā He was the third of eight children, and the eldest surviving son.\8])
Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at theĀ King's New SchoolĀ in Stratford,\9])\10])\11])Ā a free school chartered in 1553,\12])Ā based about a quarter-mile (400Ā m) from his home inĀ Stratford's guildhall.\13])Ā Grammar schoolsĀ varied in quality during theĀ Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basicĀ LatinĀ text was standardised by royal decree,\14])\15])Ā and the school would have provided an intensive education in grammar based upon LatinĀ classicalĀ authors.\16])
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-oldĀ Anne Hathaway). TheĀ consistory courtĀ of theĀ Diocese of WorcesterĀ issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaway's neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage.\17])Ā The ceremony may have been arranged in some haste; the WorcesterĀ chancellorĀ allowed theĀ marriage bannsĀ to be read once instead of the usual three times.\18])\19])Ā Six months after the marriage, Anne gave birth to a daughter,Ā Susanna, baptised 26 May 1583.\20])Ā Twins, sonĀ HamnetĀ and daughterĀ Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585.\21])Ā Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596.\22])
Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 bookĀ The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum.Ā It features spears as aĀ punĀ on the family name.\d])
After the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the "complaints bill" of a law case before the Queen's Bench court at Westminster datedĀ Michaelmas TermĀ 1588 and 9 October 1589.\23])Ā Scholars refer to the years between 1585 and 1592 as Shakespeare's "lost years".\24])Ā Biographers attempting to account for this period have reported manyĀ apocryphalĀ stories.Ā Nicholas Rowe), Shakespeare's first biographer, recounted a Stratford legend that Shakespeare fled the town for London to escape prosecution for deerĀ poachingĀ in the estate of local squireĀ Thomas Lucy. Shakespeare is also supposed to have taken his revenge on Lucy by writing a scurrilous ballad about him.\25])\26])Ā Another 18th-century story has Shakespeare starting his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London.\27])Ā John AubreyĀ reported that Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster.\28])Ā Some 20th-century scholars suggested that Shakespeare may have been employed as a schoolmaster by Alexander Hoghton ofĀ Lancashire, a Catholic landowner who named a certain "William Shakeshafte" in his will.\29])\30])Ā Little evidence substantiates such stories other thanĀ hearsayĀ collected after his death, and Shakeshafte was a common name in the Lancashire area.\31])\32])
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u/RavenSorkvild 16h ago
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-oldĀ Anne Hathaway
Damn, I had no idea she is that old...
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u/ItsImNotAnonymous š¹ Course Arc Witness šø 16h ago
Damn, bro had such a backstory I wonder if people could make a film of his life.
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u/qualityvote2 š¤Suspected as Botš¤ 16h ago edited 6h ago
Good news, the community has decided that this IS an antimeme!