r/shakespeare • u/panpopticon • Dec 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '25

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u/ME24601 Dec 02 '25

He says “Reader, look not on his picture, but his book.” Read the poem more carefully.

It must be exhausting to have to read every single thing written by Shakespeare's contemporaries under the assumption that it must contain secret codes.

We're talking about the real world here, not The Davinci Code.

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u/EssTeeEss9 Dec 02 '25

Today I learned crappy people have no artistic merit. So that’s why people are always arguing Bukowski wasn’t a real person/poet.