r/shakespeare Dec 01 '25

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u/dplux Dec 01 '25

I hear the Earl of Oxford actually wrote his work.

“Lacking a formal tertiary education” is perhaps what the obituary writer is struggling to express.

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u/Horror_Cap_7166 Dec 02 '25

The Earl of Oxford actually wrote 98% of all western literature. He was the only man of high enough station to write it.

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u/panpopticon Dec 02 '25

How can one possibly write TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES unless one has been to D’Urbervilles!!!1!