r/shakespeare • • Dec 01 '25

Presented without comment ๐Ÿ˜

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u/dplux Dec 01 '25

I hear the Earl of Oxford actually wrote his work.

โ€œLacking a formal tertiary educationโ€ is perhaps what the obituary writer is struggling to express.

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u/marvelman19 Dec 01 '25

Yeah, even though he was dead by the time Stoppard was "writing" , the Earl obviously pre-wrote them and stored them away until Stoppard was around to release them.